From: IN%"lull@acm.org" 22-FEB-1996 13:20:54.73

In any case, throwing away some selected portion of its output is NOT an appropriate cure for a broken random number generator.

The proper cure is fixing the generator.

If I understand the matter correctly, looking at and sorting out a given set of outputs is bad. Looking at a sample (that is _not_ used) and using it to decide how much putting-together (XORing) of the rest to do is OK. They appear to be doing the former. -Allen