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Re: Good PRNG (here's where)



  >i'm doing some stuff on this remailer which requires a good rng.
  >perl's rng just calls c's rng, which totally sucks.  does
  >anyone know of a cryptographically sound rng i can use?  i could
  >just call it from perl or something.

Mark Riordan's ftp site has the source for the Blum-Blum-Shub PRNG.  This
should meet your needs.  You will have to contact him for access if you
don't already have it.

Hope this helps,


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