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Re: Strong PRNGs




Carl Ellison says:
> I  can think of two:
> 
> 1.	a long-period PRNG (like subtract-with-carry) feeding a
> 	cryptographically strong hash function (perhaps triple-DES
> 	in ECB  mode with both key nad input taken from the PRNG
> 	and output becoming the new PRNG output;

What would the point of using this for a one time pad be, though? Why
not just use triple-DES and be done with the bulk and complexity?

Perry