"The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends on a law ... which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often."

–Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1966)

• ThinAir FAQ
• Online Documentation (version 0.9b)
• Download ThinAir (version 0.9b)
• Future Directions
• Other PRNG Sites
• Random Number Bibliography

Other PRNG Sites

• DIEHARD: Marsaglia's battery of random number sequence tests.
• Random Number Generation: Skip Carter's random number generator page.
• RN Chapter: Information provided by the Computational Science Education Project
• Generating Gaussian Random Numbers
• P1363: Cryptographic Random Numbers
• Welcome to lavarand (on a lighter note)
• HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers based on radioactive decay
• CypherPunks Randomness FTP site
• Nico's Really Random GeneratorAn interesting thread about a potential source of random bits on the PC.
• SPRNG: Scalable Parallel Pseudo Random Number Generators Library
• RFC1750 Randomness Recommendations for Security
  
• Resources for generating crypto-quality randomness
  
• Tests for Random Number Generators
  

Random Number Bibliography

• Knuth, Donald E., The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1981.
• Schneier, Bruce, Applied Cryptography, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996.
• Weingartener, Andreas, Nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generators, Masters Thesis, June 1994.
• Schildt, Herbert, The Annotated ANSI C Standard, Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1990.
• Dwyer, Jerry, Quick and Portable Random Number Generators, C/C++ Users Journal, June 1995, pp. 33-44.
• Dwyer, Jerry & Williams, K. B., Testing Random Number Generators, C/C++ Users Journal, June 1996, pp. 39-48.
• Dwyer, Jerry & Williams, K. B., Testing Random Number Generators, Part 2, C/C++ Users Journal, August 1996, pp. 57-66.

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