Re: Make things interesting

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 06/27/03 

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:00:01 GMT

Russ Lyttle wrote:
> Tom St Denis wrote:
> <<SNIP for space>>
> Perhaps Tom, contact, and others could give the following code a try. Its a
> bit long, but I think it would be interesting to see how it runs on your
> tests. It should be a fairly faithful reproduction of Algorithm M and might
> turn into something useful.

Yours uses a LCG as the underlying PRNG. This has been proven to be
weak. No joy.

Tom

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