17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
From: IN%"adamsc@io-online.com" "Chris Adams" 17-SEP-1996 15:12:13.73
Supposing, too, that you know these weaknesses, would using separate algorithms for different portions of the number work well?
That would seem to be a possibility; admittedly, the local copy of AC has been checked out for the past year, so I haven't been able to take a look at it. I'd tend to think that if you _know_ the flaw, one could come up with a better way to deal with it than the generalized method I discussed. For instance, if the MSB of bytes coming out of a scribble window is too low in entropy, only use it XORed or whatever with a more-random bit. -Allen