Random Number Generator: Revision history

9 June 2024

• curprev 05:4605:46, 9 June 2024‎ Xtex talk contribs‎ m 21,655 bytes +36‎ Bot: Replace deprecated source tag with syntaxhighlight
• curprev 04:5304:53, 9 June 2024‎ Xtex talk contribs‎ m 21,619 bytes +108‎ Bot: Replace deprecated source tag with syntaxhighlight

16 January 2023

• curprev 02:2202:22, 16 January 2023‎ osdev>Rose932‎ m 21,511 bytes +1‎ Fixed a minor spelling mistake.

6 September 2021

• curprev 18:4818:48, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 21,510 bytes +1,983‎ Sprinkle in cryptographic security
• curprev 18:2218:22, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 19,527 bytes +615‎ →‎Mersenne Twister: Replace implementation
• curprev 14:0914:09, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 18,912 bytes +35‎ →‎Wichmann-Hill: Link the original paper
• curprev 14:0114:01, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 18,877 bytes +684‎ Add Wichmann-Hill
• curprev 13:5913:59, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 18,193 bytes +506‎ Add adversarial entropy from Nullplan's version
• curprev 13:5613:56, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 17,687 bytes +547‎ Incorporate timing into "sampling manually"
• curprev 13:5213:52, 6 September 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 17,140 bytes +911‎ Copy Entropy from Nullplan's

13 August 2021

• curprev 08:0308:03, 13 August 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 16,229 bytes +755‎ →‎PCG family: Describe PCG
• curprev 07:2607:26, 13 August 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ m 15,474 bytes +1‎ →‎Rolling your own: Add missing U to literal
• curprev 07:2507:25, 13 August 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 15,473 bytes +728‎ →‎Rolling your own: Add a TestU01 example
• curprev 06:5306:53, 13 August 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ m 14,745 bytes −1‎ →‎Sampling manually: produces -> produce (typo)

12 August 2021

• curprev 22:4122:41, 12 August 2021‎ osdev>Wukl‎ 14,746 bytes +6,907‎ Rework a lot of what was (IMO) a rather silly page. Also add more info on CSPRNGs and some actually good PRNGs. Still not done. Sorry for the large diff.

27 April 2020

• curprev 13:0813:08, 27 April 2020‎ osdev>Dennis95‎ 7,839 bytes −3‎ According to the Intel manual the carry flag is set on success, not clear

10 January 2020

• curprev 05:5705:57, 10 January 2020‎ osdev>Anic‎ m 7,842 bytes 0‎ Fixed typo in the comment from the code example.

25 May 2019

• curprev 03:5403:54, 25 May 2019‎ osdev>Hextakatt‎ m 7,842 bytes −1‎ an -> a

23 May 2019

• curprev 00:2800:28, 23 May 2019‎ osdev>Hextakatt‎ m 7,843 bytes +20‎ fixed unencyclopedic tone

10 September 2018

• curprev 04:5504:55, 10 September 2018‎ osdev>Carver‎ 7,823 bytes +16‎ No edit summary

25 February 2018

• curprev 05:3705:37, 25 February 2018‎ osdev>A22347‎ m 7,807 bytes +7‎ x86 RDRAND Instruction

9 June 2017

• curprev 23:1623:16, 9 June 2017‎ osdev>No92‎ m 7,800 bytes +314‎ →‎x86 RDRAND Instruction: clarify that this code is not recommended
• curprev 21:5521:55, 9 June 2017‎ osdev>A22347‎ 7,486 bytes +695‎ No edit summary

3 March 2015

• curprev 15:1915:19, 3 March 2015‎ osdev>Glauxosdev‎ 6,791 bytes +34‎ →‎Types of random number generators

4 July 2012

• curprev 16:3316:33, 4 July 2012‎ osdev>Virtlink‎ m 6,757 bytes −1‎ →‎Linear feedback shift register
• curprev 16:3116:31, 4 July 2012‎ osdev>Virtlink‎ 6,758 bytes +2,811‎ →‎Pseudorandom number generators: Linear Feedback Shift Registers
• curprev 08:5908:59, 4 July 2012‎ Solar talk contribs‎ 3,947 bytes +417‎ →‎Pseudorandom number generators: Standard provides a functional example.
• curprev 08:5608:56, 4 July 2012‎ Solar talk contribs‎ 3,530 bytes −37‎ →‎Simple Number Generator: If it isn't standard, don't call it standard.

3 July 2012

• curprev 03:0403:04, 3 July 2012‎ Lionel talk contribs‎ m 3,567 bytes +56‎ →‎Simple Number Generator: Made it simpler.

25 July 2011

• curprev 23:5723:57, 25 July 2011‎ osdev>Andyhhp‎ 3,511 bytes +84‎ the difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom is very importent

23 July 2011

• curprev 05:0805:08, 23 July 2011‎ Lionel talk contribs‎ 3,427 bytes +391‎ I got the code from a public-domain website and modified it so it took a seed and maximum.

17 October 2010

• curprev 20:5020:50, 17 October 2010‎ osdev>Bewing‎ m 3,036 bytes +32‎ Added to Common Alg. category
• curprev 11:1211:12, 17 October 2010‎ osdev>Bjork‎ 3,004 bytes +2,414‎ No edit summary

16 October 2010

• curprev 21:5521:55, 16 October 2010‎ osdev>Mariuszp‎ 590 bytes +590‎ New page: = Random Number Generator = Random number generators can be implemented in lots of different ways. This article explains some of them. == Fibonacci random number == My OS uses a special...