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From: ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Random Numbers
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 00:24:35 EST
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Lee (et al),

Needing a good random number generator myself, I scrounged around all OVER
the nets and literature, and have about everything available out there.

What I do NOT have is the training/knowledge/techniques to tell if ANY of
them are truly any good!

Various authoritative sources are quite free at warning how difficult it is
to generate true random numbers (EVERYTHING is called "pseudo.."), but
do darned little to provide a solution!

I don't know enough about proper mathematical/logical testing to prove
anything myself (and am sorely tried at this point, depending very much on
random numbers on an encryption scheme I've been working on for 9 months
now).

Any methametical geniuses out there who can point me to NOT a long and deep
discussion on the validity/nonvalidity of generation methods, but a clean
SOLUTION!?

Re the original query.. I can list what I DO have and maybe move it to you
one way or another if you just want some code to play with.  I just can't
tell you if it's any GOOD or not!

Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
(ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA)