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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:04
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:46:09 -0800
At 11:42 AM 1/22/99 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>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
Hmm. This must be done correctly; otherwise the PRNG can introduce
structure into the output stream. Remember that an RNG conditioning
algorithm,
unlike a PRNG, does *not* appear random by itself, and will never fool a
random-test,
whereas a PRNG may. Because the PRNG can hide a RNG failure, this might
be a bad idea.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:04