On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > BBS is not practical in practice due to the size of the moduli > required. You could probably go outside, take an atmospheric reading, > and then run it through sha1 quicker. See, for example, > http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3454/blum-blum-shub-vs-aes-ctr-or-other-csprngs.
Understood. BBS was only an example of some way to modify the algorithm to introduce non-linearity into the system. I thought I had it, but it's apparent I don't. I'm just grateful I'm not getting shamed and flamed by cryptographers on this list much stronger in the field than I. :) -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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