Recommended minor alteration to the L15 algorithm.
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Jan 30 10:53:26 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.
Oh, also Robin if you could, again take a look at our
/usr/src/sys/kern_nrandom.c file and tell me what lines I
have to adjust to make the above change.
I want to get it right and I'm just not sure which lines you
are talking about here.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at backplane.com>
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