BBS generator
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed Oct 9 15:23:04 PDT 1996
paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk writes:
> Does anyone here know the approximate ammount of output from a BBS
> PRNG needed to predict with some certainty the next bit or bits? - is
> the generator totally secure, ie. do you need to factor to predict or
> is there an attack using the output?
The whole point of a BBS generator is that you have to factor in order
to predict -- I'm sure that Schneier has a discussion on this.
Perry
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