Using SHA1 as RNG

[Erik Max Francis]

Irmen de Jong wrote:

> Umm.. perhaps. I don't know that much about strong random number
> generators. Can anybody enlighten me (us)?

There is lots and lots of literature on this subject.  See for instance
_Art of Computer Programming_ and _Numerical Recipes_.

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