Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread gfgs pedo
hi, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2002 at 0:08, Ben Laurie wrote: Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any arbitrary seed(greater than 100

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Ben Laurie
gfgs pedo wrote: hi, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2002 at 0:08, Ben Laurie wrote: Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Sandy Harris
Ben Laurie wrote: gfgs pedo wrote: hi, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Apr 2002 at 0:08, Ben Laurie wrote: Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: gfgs pedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any arbitrary seed(greater than 100 bits as

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread gfgs pedo
hi, I get the point.Thanx for all the replies. regards Data. --- Joseph Ashwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: gfgs pedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable

Re: Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-22 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: gfgs pedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh surely you can do better than that - making it hard to guess the seed is also clearly a desirable property (and one that the square root rng does not have). U can choose any arbitrary seed(greater than 100 bits as

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:22 AM 4/21/02 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I disagree here somewhat. Cryptography ttbomk doesn't have means of construction of provably strong PRNGs, especially scalable ones, and with lots of internal state (asymptotically approaching one-time pad properties), and those which can be mapped

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-21 Thread georgemw
On 21 Apr 2002 at 10:00, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:22 AM 4/21/02 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I disagree here somewhat. Cryptography ttbomk doesn't have means of construction of provably strong PRNGs, especially scalable ones, and with lots of internal state (asymptotically

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:22 AM 4/21/02 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I disagree here somewhat. Cryptography ttbomk doesn't have means of construction of provably strong PRNGs, especially scalable ones, and with lots of internal state (asymptotically approaching one-time pad properties), and those which can be mapped

Re: Two ideas for random number generation: Q for Eugene

2002-04-21 Thread Ben Laurie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Apr 2002 at 10:00, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:22 AM 4/21/02 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I disagree here somewhat. Cryptography ttbomk doesn't have means of construction of provably strong PRNGs, especially scalable ones, and with lots of