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Re: EDP (entropy distribution protocol), userland PRNG design

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Sun Jul 2 11:29:11 2006

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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:21:27 -0400
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 03:25:09AM -0500, Travis H. wrote:
> Going over old emails.
> 
> On 10/12/05, Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net> wrote:
> >I prefer a multi-stage design, as described by various people smarter than 
> >I
> >am:
> >
> >  source(s) --> mixer --> pool --> extractor --> X9.31
> 
> Did you really mean X9.31 and not X9.17?

Yes. IIRC, same thing, just in a different standard. (And I have a
copy of X9.31, while I've never even read X9.17)

-J

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