RE: Secure random ID generation

Unfortunately this is not an option. These are random keys for a distributed network.

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From: miked@rootdown.net [mailto:miked@rootdown.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:36 PM To: Ryan M Harris
Subject: Re: Secure random ID generation

Take a look at some of the hardware cryptographic/SSL accelerator cards out there. They have about the best random generators you can find on a computer. If your needing to implement this is many languages, why not have a single machine that generates all your random ids, then just pull them from that one machine in all your programs (http/tcp is pretty easy to implement in anything).

        -Mike

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Ryan M Harris wrote:

> Hello all,


identifiers

> in a network security system, can you tell me if this formula is good


array('0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','A','B','C','D','E','F');

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$RandomNumbers[mersenne_twister_rand(16)];

>       }


number.

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> Questions:


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> it?)

> 4)  Is the mersenne twister a secure enough random generator?  If not,