CSPRNG algorithms

[William Soley]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Travis wrote:
> [...] would people like to help me create one by
> emailing me references to extant PRNG definitions?

This paper describes the architecture of a prototype I built at Sun  
back in 1995 for a random number generating service that ran in user  
land.  It went through a couple revisions, and eventually got ported  
to the kernel in Solaris 10.

<http://wikis.sun.com/download/attachments/100794535/CryptoRand- 
Soley96.pdf>

The revisions since the paper were fairly minor: using a bigger  
entropy pool, improving the entropy estimation algorithm, and  
tweaking the bleed function.  I am not sure what changes were made  
when it was ported to the kernel as I was not directly involved.   
Unfortunately, the details of the revisions are only documented in  
the source code.

Kind regards,

-Bill

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