At 2:24 AM -0400 8/30/00, Mark Murray wrote:
> > Would a public PRNG (Yarrow?) server be of any use? I suppose it could be
>> done as a proof-of-concept, or as another source of entropy for an internal
>> PRNG... and the trust issue could be dealt with just as you deal with
> Would a public PRNG (Yarrow?) server be of any use? I suppose it could be
> done as a proof-of-concept, or as another source of entropy for an internal
> PRNG... and the trust issue could be dealt with just as you deal with the
> Intel PRNG. IMO, the bandwidth would be the limitat
At 12:28 PM 8/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
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>> You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational
>> quantity. This might work better for short strings.
>
>Can you give me more info on that one?
I think John
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From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You could also use Shannon's formula directly to compute informational
> quantity. This might work better for short strings.
Can you give me more info on that one?
> More appropriate for testing RNG outputs: Ueli Maurer has a
> comp
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:53:05PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
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> Tim writes:
> > At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> > >
> > >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
> > >entropy of an input string?
> > > [...]
>
> Traditionally CPRNGs pass this p
At 06:26 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
>At 3:08 PM -0400 8/24/00, Marcel Popescu wrote:
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>>Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
>>entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know how
>>to do it - my impl
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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Speaking of which - does anybody have any hints on how to determine the
> >entropy of an input string? [Needed in Yarrow, and so far I don't know
how
> >to do it - my implementation multiplies the
even think that's possible - in Delphi, I mean).
> The API the yarrow library should present to make porting easy is also
> tricky as it has to work in the linux kernel, MAC driver levels,
> perhaps windows or DOS device drivers etc, and the implementation
> restrictions down there ar
A while ago, I wrote implementation of Yarrow in Delphi. I just managed to
get the files (I haven't got them with me when I came to the US), and I'm
still not sure that it is a good implementation. It passes DIEHARD, but I
don't know if it goes through the "proper"
