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   antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:   
      
   > Michael S  wrote:   
   [...]   
   >> Anyway, even if I am skeptical about her criticism of popular PRNGs,   
   >> intuitively I agree with the constructive part of the article -   
   >> medium-quality PRNG that feeds medium quality hash function can   
   >> potentially produce very good fast PRNG with rather small internal   
   >> state.   
   >   
   > She seem to care very much about having minimal possible state.   
   > That is may be nice on embeded systems, but in general I would   
   > happily accept slighty bigger state (say 256 bits).  But if   
   > we can get good properties with very small state, then why not?   
   > [...]   
      
   That depends on whether one thinks the tests done to measure   
   quality are sufficient to determine all the axes of "good   
   properties".  I'm not inclined to think that they do.  The   
   set of tests done in the TestU01 suite are quite good IMO,   
   but I don't think they measure all the properties of interest.   
   I prefer to err on the side of caution.   
      
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