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Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:41:12 -0400 (EDT)
William H. Geiger III wrote:
| >In this field, especially as the base level of cryptosystems gets better,
| >attacks will be focused more and more on little chinks in the
| >cryptographic armor. I prefer not to leave them through sloppyness.
|
| I have only found 1 Web Paper on this subject after spending ~10hrs of
| search engines and following links:
|
| http://www.io.com/~ritter/RES/RNGMACH.HTM
|
| "Random Number Machines: A Literature Survey"
| Terry Ritter
| He gives a brief overview of 22 Papers that have been written over the
| past 40 years on the subject of RNG's starting with a RAND paper from '55
| and ending with a paper from CRYPTO '94 dealing with Randomness from air
| turbulence in Disk Drives.
Kelsey et al have a new paper on analyzing RNGs. Off of counterpane.com
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