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 arbitrary seed(greater than 100 bits > as he (i forgot who) mentioned earlier.Then subject it > to the Rabin-Miller test. > Since the seed value is a very large number,it would > be impossible to determine the actual value.The > chances the intruder find the correct seed or the > prime number hence generated is practically verly low.
Uhuh - and how do you choose this large seed? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
