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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