Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:25:08 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
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Subject: random numbers
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I've looked through /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/random.c (which has a very
nice discussion of how to get random numbers out of the entropy pool,
etc). This must be a very good RNG when the comments say that in the
worst case, the output is "merely cryptographically secure." But it's
probably impossible to port to DOS. Too many kernel-specific'isms. I think
a better source (unfortunately I don't have the book handy right now) is
to check in Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. As I recall, there is
an entire chapter on RNG's.


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