19 May
2006
19 May
'06
8 p.m.
How about Mersenne Twister by math profs at Hiroshima U.: http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html
You have to seed the Mersenne Twister with something, which is what this portion of the thread is about; a good source of entropy to obtain a seed from.
Yeah I just went back through the thread and saw that. Didn't Schneier give some examples of how to generate highly entropic seeds in his book? If I recall correctly, he suggested hooking up hardware to measure various properties of subatomic particles to get some truly random values. Of course it all depends on how much entropy you really need and how much you're willing to pay for it. Entropy requires no maintenance.