>I have never seen a good catalog of computationally-strong >pseudo-random number generators.
Chapter 3 of Knuth's TAOCP is all about pseudo-random number generators, starting with a fine example of the wrong way to do it. My copy is several thousand miles away but my recollection is that his main advice was to stick to linear congruential PRNGs, perhaps with a buffered postpass to scramble up the order or the results. It's certainly a good place to start. R's, John [Moderator's note: none of the generators in TAOCP are cryptographically strong. They are fine for Monte Carlo simulations and such. --Perry] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com