Generating Unique Keys

Nagy László nagylzs at freemail.hu
Mon Jan 27 17:50:19 EST 2003


>    Chad> and sequence, and start predicting the next random numbers.  The
>    Chad> details typically amount to solving a linear difference equation
>    Chad> (which is doable).
>
>Is this also true for the new-in-2.3 random number generator (Mersenne
>Twister)?  I'm not trying to pick nits with your arguments, just asking.  I
>know nothing about cryptography or random number generation.
>  
>
The authors of Mersenne Twister does not guarantee the MT19937 to be 
cryptograpichally secure,
but they say it is secure through a cryptographic hash function.

P.S.: I'm a newbie. I dared to answer here only because I wrote my 
degree about PRNG's, epecially MT. :-)

Laci 1.0







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