PRNG design document?

[Anton Stiglic]

> "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

That's a good reference on PRNGs.  There is also the work on Yarrow, 
http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow-notes.html

The best implementation of Yarrow that I know of is
http://opensource.zeroknowledge.com/yarrow/
the implementation available on Couternpane's site is of an old version of
Yarrow, and had some security bugs (don't know if they were fixed...).

Also interesting is David Wagner's collection of links to stuff about
randomness:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/

--Anton



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