Pseudorandom Number Generator in Ansi X9.17

[Travis H.]

In Practical Cryptography, Schneier discusses a new PRNG design called Fortuna.

It has some neat features.

He also discusses problems with the ANSI PRNG here:

http://www.schneier.com/paper-prngs.html
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