PRNG design document?
Anton Stiglic
astiglic at okiok.com
Tue Sep 2 15:51:47 EDT 2003
> Allow me to clarify my problem a little. I'm commonly engaged to review
> source code for a security audit, some such programs include a random
> number generator, many of which are of ad-hoc design. The nature of such
> audits is that it's much more appealing to be able to say "here are three
> accepted guidelines that your generator violates" rather than "I haven't
> seen that before and I don't like it, you should replace it with something
> else".
Here are two references that might also be helpful:
http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/VIA_rng.pdf
http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/IntelRNG.pdf
These are reports on the analysis of two RNGs, I found them well written.
--Anton
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