Friend, (1) The Centre de Recherches Mathematique is hosting a year-long program in combinatorics and group theory in 1996-1997. The year will be organized around a number of workshops spread throughout the year. Among the workshops: WORKSHOP ON PSEUDORANDOM NUMBER GENERATION 06 03 / 28 96 The CRC's at the University of Montreal. Details: ACTIVITIES@CRM.UMontreal.CA or http://www.CRM.UMontreal.CA (2) If you'd like to read RFC 1750, "Randomness Recommendations for Security," but you're too busy to ftp, email mailserv@ds.internic net and in the body of the message include the command document-by-name rfc1750 In due time it will arrive in 2 parts. At the end of the 2d part: References [ASYMMETRIC] - Secure Communications and Asymmetric Cryptosystems, edited by Gustavus J. Simmons, AAAS Selected Symposium 69, Westview Press, Inc. [BBS] - A Simple Unpredictable Pseudo-Random Number Generator, SIAM Journal on Computing, v. 15, n. 2, 1986, L. Blum, M. Blum, & M. Shub. [BRILLINGER] - Time Series: Data Analysis and Theory, Holden-Day, 1981, David Brillinger. [CRC] - C.R.C. Standard Mathematical Tables, Chemical Rubber Publishing Company. [CRYPTO1] - Cryptography: A Primer, A Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, 1981, Alan G. Konheim. [CRYPTO2] - Cryptography: A New Dimension in Computer Data Security, A Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, 1982, Carl H. Meyer & Stephen M. Matyas. [CRYPTO3] - Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, Bruce Schneier. [DAVIS] - Cryptographic Randomness from Air Turbulence in Disk Drives, Advances in Cryptology - Crypto '94, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #839, 1984, Don Davis, Ross Ihaka, and Philip Fenstermacher. [DES] - Data Encryption Standard, United States of America, Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 46-1. - Data Encryption Algorithm, American National Standards Institute, ANSI X3.92-1981. (See also FIPS 112, Password Usage, which includes FORTRAN code for performing DES.) [DES MODES] - DES Modes of Operation, United States of America, Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 81. - Data Encryption Algorithm - Modes of Operation, American National Standards Institute, ANSI X3.106-1983. [D-H] - New Directions in Cryptography, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology, November, 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman. [DoD] - Password Management Guideline, United States of America, Department of Defense, Computer Security Center, CSC-STD-002-85. (See also FIPS 112, Password Usage, which incorporates CSC-STD-002-85 as one of its appendices.) [GIFFORD] - Natural Random Number, MIT/LCS/TM-371, September 1988, David K. Gifford [KNUTH] - The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, Chapter 3: Random Numbers. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, Second Edition 1982, Donald E. Knuth. [KRAWCZYK] - How to Predict Congruential Generators, Journal of Algorithms, V. 13, N. 4, December 1992, H. Krawczyk [MD2] - The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1319, April 1992, B. Kaliski [MD4] - The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1320, April 1992, R. Rivest [MD5] - The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, RFC1321, April 1992, R. Rivest [PEM] - RFCs 1421 through 1424: - RFC 1424, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services, 02/10/1993, B. Kaliski - RFC 1423, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers, 02/10/1993, D. Balenson - RFC 1422, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management, 02/10/1993, S. Kent - RFC 1421, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures, 02/10/1993, J. Linn [SHANNON] - The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, 1963, Claude E. Shannon. (originally from: Bell System Technical Journal, July and October 1948) [SHIFT1] - Shift Register Sequences, Aegean Park Press, Revised Edition 1982, Solomon W. Golomb. [SHIFT2] - Cryptanalysis of Shift-Register Generated Stream Cypher Systems, Aegean Park Press, 1984, Wayne G. Barker. [SHS] - Secure Hash Standard, United States of American, National Institute of Science and Technology, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180, April 1993. [STERN] - Secret Linear Congruential Generators are not Cryptograhically Secure, Proceedings of IEEE STOC, 1987, J. Stern. [VON NEUMANN] - Various techniques used in connection with random digits, von Neumann's Collected Works, Vol. 5, Pergamon Press, 1963, J. von Neumann. Of course you'd get the 2d edition of Schneier's Applied Cryptography. Something a little different at the introductory level: J C G Lesurf Physics and Astronomy Department University of St Andrews Scotland Information and Measurement Institute of Physics Publishing US Editorial Office The Public Ledger Building Suite 1035 Independence Square Philadelphia PA 19106 1995 ix + 243 ISBN: 0 7503 0308 5 Cordially, Jim