Randomness

[Paul Onions]

On Thursday 08 May 2003 3:07 pm, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> It was my intention, and perhaps I should make it clearer, that the only
> difference between insecureprng() and the other PRNGs is the source of
> entropy. Hence, it does not leak state any more than the rest do.
> Clearly if the insecureprng() uses a cryptographically weak algorithm
> then it cannot share state.

Oh okay.  But a small doubt still remains - is a secure-PRNG still a 
secure-PRNG when multiple instantiations are run in parallel and (at least 
partially) sharing the same state information?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this question has been addressed 
in the literature.

Regards,
Paul(o)

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