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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26
Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 23:18:16 -0700
At 4:16 PM -0700 2/3/99, bram wrote:
>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.
I thought I had coined the phrase, but I seem to remember seeing it used in
Applied Cryptography (version 2), so I guess it is Schneier's. My copy is
at work, so I can't chase down the reference.
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:26