[Cryptech Tech] fyi: pcg-random.org: A Family of Better Random Number Generator

[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

Warren Kumari wrote:
> I guess I'm easily amused, but I found the Party Tricks section 
> entertaining: http://www.pcg-random.org/party-tricks.html
> 
> This has sufficiently entertained me that I'll go read the paper...

Very cool party tricks.
Their pros and cons of algorithms could be discussed though. I would say
slighly biased towards their own algorithm. I'm also surprised they
didn't include AES-CTR.

The notion that ChaCha20 would be slow is imho outright wrong. It is
slower that some of the others, esp on non 64-bit machines. But you can
still generate multiple GBps data with ChaCha20 on a modern machine
which cannot be claimed to be slow.

Also, I would bet that Bernd would have loved to have the Keccak RNG
construction in the comparison.

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Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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