PRNG design document?

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:57:32AM -0400, Tim Dierks wrote:
> Is there a definitive or highly recommended paper or book on the design of 
> PRNGs?
> 
> I'm assuming a cryptographic PRNG of the type in OpenSSL, PGP, etc., where 
> entropic seeding data is accumulated into a pool and output is produced by 
> operating on the pool with a secure hash or similar cryptographic algorithm.

"Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers" by Peter
Gutmann

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix98.pdf

and the followup:

http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/06_random.pdf

David

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