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Code for program to create random data disks for the TAPCOD and TECOD encryption programs

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2024-09-08 · latest 2024-10-19

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  1. …and you'll find it's initially dependant on time (including the typing speed of the user): https://github.com/Vulacode/RANDOM/blob/main/RANDOM.BAS#L295 It then is reinitialised periodically by mixing in run time (which is highly variable…
    comment by geocar · 2024-10-19 · in Code that helped end Apartheid
  2. …more confirm or reject this? Edit: It seems that the random generation can be found starting here https://github.com/Vulacode/RANDOM/blob/d6a1a1d694b22e6a115b... With three methods, one (RAND2) seems to use the basic interpreter rng more…
    comment by janzer · 2024-10-18 · in Code that helped end Apartheid
  3. …system Rand LCG to switch between 3 new rand1-3 functions, two of them with different LCG's. https://github.com/Vulacode/RANDOM/blob/d6a1a1d694b22e6a115b...
    comment by rurban · 2024-09-08 · in Cracking an old ZIP file to help open source the ANC's "Vula" secret crypto code