Re: Pseudo-random code in asm?

steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:04:56 -0500

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Actually, it doesn't NEED to be in ASM... write now I'm writing in pascal..
I
would use C, but I just have no idea how to use c source in pascal without
first
compiling it.. if there is a way, please enlighten me.

>

steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca wrote:
>>
>> As the subject suggests, does anyone have any cryptographically secure
code
>> for creating random numbers in ASM?
>> this should be something worthy of generating at least a 128-bit key or
one
>> time pad..
>> (of course since you can use asm calls in any language, this would be a
>> huge help for me, along with speed.)
>
>I don't see why you need ASM. Subroutines in any high-level language,
>if the interface is properly designed, can be called from programs
>written in any other language, including ASM. The compilers are
>nowadays so good that is difficult to outperform them with hand-crafted
>assembler code, not to mention the ease of discovering possibilities
>of global (as against local) optimizations and the ease of later
>modifications and debugging and last not least the time of
>implementation.

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