Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is...
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Pseudorandom number generator (redirect from Software PRNG)
(incorporated in Mac OS X and FreeBSD), and Fortuna combination PRNGs which attempt to combine several PRNG primitive algorithms with the goal of removing...
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Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (section NSA kleptographic backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG PRNG)
pseudorandom number generator (CPRNG) is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with properties that make it suitable for use in cryptography. It is also...
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Pennsylvania Fortuna railway station (Mexico City), operated by Ferrocarriles Suburbanos Fortuna (cigarette), a cigarette brand owned by Altadis Fortuna (PRNG),...
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collect before using it to reseed the PRNG. This problem is solved by Fortuna, an improvement of Yarrow. Fortuna has 32 pools to collect entropy and removed...
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1145/1132973.1132974. S2CID 7368302. Jenkins, Bob (2009). "A small noncryptographic PRNG". Salmon, John; Moraes, Mark; Dror, Ron; Shaw, David (2011). "Parallel random...
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and threads). The RDSEED instruction is intended for seeding a software PRNG of arbitrary width, whereas the RDRAND is intended for applications that...
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• Format-preserving encryption • Fortezza • Fort George G. Meade • Fortuna (PRNG) • Four-square cipher • Franciszek Pokorny • Frank A. Stevenson • Frank...
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results because he fears being prosecuted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NIST SP800-90 Dual Ec Prng...
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so-called "random number generations" done by pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which generate numbers that only look random but are in fact predetermined—these...
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Layer (SSL) encryption protocol used pseudo-random quantities derived from a PRNG seeded with three variable values: the time of day, the process ID, and the...
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link to /dev/random. Both block only until properly seeded. FreeBSD's PRNG (Fortuna) reseeds regularly, and does not attempt to estimate entropy. On a system...
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(uniformly distributed—see also List of pseudorandom number generators for other PRNGs with varying degrees of convergence and varying statistical quality):[citation...
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