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 clearl

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

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 s

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). >

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(greate

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 ap

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 mappe