Good RNG (was: Mac OS RNG)

[Werner Koch]

 || On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:14:39 +0200
 || "Huels, Ralf SCORE" <Ralf.Huels@schufa.de> wrote: 

 hrs> Can you give me a pointer towards good literature on how to test for 
 hrs> randomness sufficient for cryptography?

You have to analyze each source of random.  Peter Gutmann has a paper
on this:  http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/

Ciao,

  Werner

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