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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: random number generator
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:06:30 GMT
- References: <1126@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul29.092934.23335@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.090353.237@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul29.090353.237@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.092934.23335@cl.cam.ac.uk>, nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
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- >> It's not making it a FAQ that's the problem - it's finding a GAA (Generally
- >> Agreed Answer)!
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-
- >I suspect one of the most FAQs is what generator to use. Can we not establish
- >a short list of GAAs? I nominate the Wichmann-Hill generator with the
- >McLeod modification. (I hold off on posting the code until I hear whether
- >this is a GAA!)
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- I would not accept anything with a short seed (say at least several
- hundred bytes) as acceptable. Other than the believed cryptographically
- strong Shamir and Blum-Miccaeli (sp?) procedures, which are extremely
- costly, I know of none. The problem is at least moderate-term independence,
- and correlations, periods, etc., do not answer the question.
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- Also, most generators produce "real" or other lengths than the entire
- word. There are may situations in which a random bit stream is needed.
- The others can be cheaply obtained from this, but not vice-versa.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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