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Subject: Re: Do you use RANDOM NUMBERS?
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 19:50:56 EST
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Summary: I never said DES was fast

I never said DES made a FAST random number generator, only that it
made a "good" one (in its statistical properties). I thought I said
that.

Another word of warning: quite a few companies sell "encryption"
programs for the IBM PC that are much faster than software DES. Note
my use of quotes; they are TERRIBLE both as encryption packages and
as random number generators. For example, "lock/unlock" by SoftLogic
Solutions (the guys who brought DoubleDos to the world) encrypts
a file containing binary zeros to the pattern FBFFFBFFFBFFFB...
with the key I used. Pretty bad.

Phil