Literature and Web References

• Books

• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Alfred Menezes, et. al. Chapter 5 Pseudorandom Bits and Sequences
• Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practices, William Stallings
• Java Cryptography, Jonathan B. Knudsen
• Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier
• The Art of Computer Programming, Vol.2: Semi-Numerical Algorithms, 3rd. Ed., Addison-Wesley, 1998.  Donald E. Knuth
• Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari, Ivar Peterson
• Randomness, Deborah Bennett

 
• Doctoral Thesis
 
• Statistical Analysis of Symmetric Ciphers, Helen Gustafson
• On the Statistical Testing of Block Ciphers, Richard J. De Moliner

 
• Conferences Proceedings

 
• National Information Systems Security
• RSA Security Conference
• USENIX

• Technical Papers/Journal Articles

• Randomness and the Netscape Browser, Goldbern and Wagner
• True Random Number Generators, Davies
• Not all possibly "random sequences" are created equal, Pincus & Kalman
• Software Generation of Practically Strong Numbers, Gutmann
• An Accurate Evaluation of Maurer's Universal Test, Coron & Naccache
• Distribution of the Number of Visits of a Random Walk and a Test of Randomness, Rukhin
• Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators, Kelsey, Schneier, Wagner, & Hall
• Pierre L'Ecuyer's Papers on Random Number Generation
• Intel Random Number Generator
• Suggestions for Random Number Generation in Software
• Proper Initialization for the BSAFE Random Number Generator
• Preliminary Analysis of the BSAFE 3.x Pseudorandom Number Generators
• SKIPJACK Review Interim Report
• Encryption Keys Vulnerable, Researchers Warn

• Randomness and Random Number Generation Lists

• Randomness for Cryptography
• Randomness
• Random Numbers
• Random Number Generators
• Approximate Entropy Graph Depicting Randomness in Classical Numbers

RNG Project  NIST Computer Security Division