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Subtract-and-carry PRNGs
From: Augustus SFX van Dusen <ASFXvD@story.net>
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 23:27:00 CEST
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 23:27:00 CEST
Subtract-and-carry PRNGs are attractive because of their simplicity, and
because of the fact that they tend to have extremely long periods.
However, I understand that at least some implementations show poor
statistical randomness properties. My question is, Are subtract-and-carry
PRNGs in general prone to have (relatively) poor statistical randomness
properties? If not, are they cryptographically safe?
Received on Mon May 1 01:53:34 2006