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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:42:31 +0100
Alex Alten wrote:
>
> What is needed is a certification of the RNG. Like the NSA does for
> Fortezza cards (which contain an RNG). Otherwise the only other way
> is to do it yourself using RNG analysis software like Diehard.
Since the generator is 'hardware', it is presumably 'different'
for each chip. So certification could only provide an average
measure of the 'quality' and one has to do some tests oneself if
one wants to be more certain. BTW, I suppose that it is always
a good idea to mix the output of a hardware RNG with that of a
software PRNG.
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:04