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new idea for random number generation
- Subject: new idea for random number generation
- From: sandyinchina at gmail.com (Sandy Harris)
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:59:47 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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There are plenty of good online references for the issues raised in
this thread. I'll give two for each, a more-or-less standard reference
& a Citizendium article that I wrote much of & that may be easier
reading. Of course Wikipedia has both as well, and various crypto
texts have deeper detail.
Random numbers:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4086.txt
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Random_number_generator
One-time pads:
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/otp-faq/
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/One-time_pad