Path: cactus.org!milano!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!ogicse!network. + ucsd.edu!qualcom.qualcomm.com!chicago.qualcomm.com!karn From: karn@chicago.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: IBM-PC random generator, source included Message-ID: <1992Jun24.092426.11191@qualcomm.com> Date: 24 Jun 92 09:24:26 GMT References: <2673@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1992Jun23.080147.15804@cactus.org> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc Lines: 7 Nntp-Posting-Host: chicago.qualcomm.com Surely Nico's algorithm is better than many existing techniques for generating crypto keys, such as the Kerberos ticket server's use of the rand() function. (If this is no longer true, I'm sure Jeff or somebody else from MIT will jump in and correct me. :-)) Phil