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Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> Wed, 02 April 2014 14:24 UTC

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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:

> It seems like there's a lot of knowledge on that spread
> about and if there was someone was willing and able maybe
> an informational RFC about mistakes that have been made
> and how implementers can avoid 'em might be useful.

I think the old RFC 1750 and current 4086 pretty much cover that.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4086

There has been mailing list discussion of an update to 4086, but
I do not know how that is progressing.

> Or maybe there's a survey paper out there somewhere
> or thesis that already has a load of that material?

At least two reference pages have been mentioned on
various lists. I have looked at two and found both quite
good. Unfortunately, I only recall one URL:
http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/secure-random.htm

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