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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:25
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:16:46 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> bram writes:
> >
> > One of the advantages of a strict PRNG is that you can make it spit out
> > the exact same output multiple times. Applications where that is
> > beneficial (for example, simulations which have no security needs) can
> > actually be hurt by using a CSPRNG.
>
> Did I use the terminology wrong? By CSPRNG I meant "cryptographic
> strength PSEUDO random number generator"
Oh, I meant Continuously Seeded Pseudo Random Number Generator - a
distinct cryptographic primitive.
Someone posted here that he uses CSPRNG to refer to random number
generators which you can feed entropy bits into at any time, so I started
doing that as well. Do people think this is reasonably clear? The paper on
counterpane proposes calling them PRNG's, but to me that already has a
specific meaning - something which gets seeded once and from there on
spits out apparently random but deterministically generated bits.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:25