On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Thomas DuBuisson
wrote:
> Before we bother to do that I think it would be worth deciding what
> level of performance we are trying to achieve. On my laptop (Core2
> 2.5Ghz) I generate 4MB of random values in less than 900ms (HashDRBG).
> What is StdGen getting, w
On November 4, 2010 13:38:12 Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> From: Gideon Yuval (Gideon Yuval)
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:15 AM
> To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Burton Smith
> Cc: Tolga Acar
> Subject: RE: Random number generation
>
> As long as the key, and the non-counting part of the counter,
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 05:38:12PM +, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>
> The generator uses crypto functions,
Does that mean it couldn't be used in some countries?
> so it's probably more computationally expensive than common linear-sequence
> generators, but in exchange you get robust splitting
