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'strong' PRNG for cryptography
Gutmann, Peter, Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/random.pdf

J. Kelsey, et al, Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators
http://www.counterpane.com/pseudorandom_number.html

Counterpane's Yarrow: crypto-strong PRNG
http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html
"The first implementation of Yarrow is in a software driver for Windows
3.1, Windows 95, and NT."
"Counterpane is releasing Yarrow copyright-free, at no charge, in the
public domain for general business use."

Cryptlib toolkit
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/

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M Taylor mctaylor@ / glyphmetrics.ca | privacy.nb.ca
Re: 'strong' PRNG for cryptography [ In reply to ]
M Taylor <mctaylor@privacy.nb.ca> writes:

> J. Kelsey, et al, Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators
> http://www.counterpane.com/pseudorandom_number.html
>
> Counterpane's Yarrow: crypto-strong PRNG

A PRNG is not good enough for ElGamal algorithms or key generation (k)


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