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List:       cryptography
Subject:    Re: rng
From:       staym () accessdata ! com
Date:       1999-03-30 16:37:46
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Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> 
> You can see that Perry is right by a simple counting argument. Say the word
> size is m bits. There are  2**(3*m) cvombinations of  seed, multiplier, and
> modulus and there are (2**m)!  possible arangements of the values. The
> latter is much bigger for m > 2.
> 
> Arnold Reinhold

Ah!  Sorry, I meant truncated LCG.
-- 
Mike Stay
Cryptographer / Programmer
AccessData Corp.
mailto:staym@accessdata.com

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