Re: Strong PRNG recommendations?

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:40:02 -0500

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In <199807201420.KAA04325@homeport.org>, on 07/20/98
   at 09:20 AM, Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> said:

>Stephen Zander wrote:
>|
>| Does anyone have any recommendations for a cryptographically strong
>| PRNG routine? It needs to be available as source (obviously) & under
>| LGPL/GPL or similar licence.

>Yarrow hasn't been heavily reviewed yet, but its the result of good
>analysis work. On counterpane.com

A good document to start with is:

http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~rs/ritter.html

The Efficient Generation of Cryptographic Confusion Sequences

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