'strong' PRNG for cryptography

Werner Koch wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Tue Sep 15 10:04:38 CEST 1998


M Taylor <mctaylor at privacy.nb.ca> writes:

> J. Kelsey, et al, Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators
>  http://www.counterpane.com/pseudorandom_number.html
> 
> Counterpane's Yarrow: crypto-strong PRNG 

A PRNG is not good enough for ElGamal algorithms or key generation (k)


Werner





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