Re: Idea for algo.
From: John Savard (jsavard_at_ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid)
Date: 12/31/03
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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:38:54 GMT
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:57:05 GMT, "Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@iahu.ca>
wrote, in part:
>No and here's why. You have to shuffle after every byte you process. And
>how do you shuffle? You need some random bits [or pseudo]. So you might as
>well make better use of your PRNG.
But if you have a fast PRNG which isn't too secure, using it to do
shuffles might hide some of the details of the PRNG's output.
However, if you do want to use the full output of the PRNG
efficiently, but you want to use shuffling, there's Terry Ritter's
Dynamic Substitution.
John Savard
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