Recommended minor alteration to the L15 algorithm.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sun Jan 27 16:04:44 PST 2008


:Recommended minor alteration to the L15 algorithm in
:DragonFly's /dev/[u]random random number generator:
:
:I recommend that you alter your C implementation of my
:L15 algorithm as per the description:
:
:http://www.leopard.uk.com
:
:So that the "y" state index is initialised to be
:(stateSize - 1)/255 instead of 0.
:
:"y" as in "x", "z".
:
:Sincerely,
:R Carey.

    Hey Robin, I'm not exactly sure where the fix goes in but I think I
    can figure it out if you point me at the particular line you made
    the change to in your original C++ version of the code (and post the
    URL to the source file as well).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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