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Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,

I have Issue 5 QL boards with all plug in chips working and tested, for £50 plus postage.

That would be awesome, Ill email you!

As the subject says, want one outside of case for development work.

How does sQLux get compiled on Android?

Thats for someone to work out, I no longer have any android devices!

There is SDL2 for Android AFAIK, Id accept patches for Android build of sQLux!

You didn't. It was our "played a lawyer on TV once" advice to provide Minerva only to existing QL owners. Much like running MacOS on non Apple hardware. I don't believe I actually checked the ROM image that got supplied. Ooops did I say that out loud ? After a while, we dropped that requi...

Why did you need a rom image to get a rom replacement?

repeatability and for cryptography and software engineering you want that Hell no, crypto really likes true random for exactly the opposite of that reason. The problem with true randomness is that when you encrypt something you can't decrypt it. What you want is the appearance of true randomness. T...

repeatability and for cryptography and software engineering you want that

Hell no, crypto really likes true random for exactly the opposite of that reason.

Hi Bwinkel, Congruent random number generators are for PSEUDO randoms... We want true random numbers. The method I have devised could be adopted for ANY number of bits, but not on QPC2. ( But possible in C++ , on 64bit machines or better). Is the park-Miller routine available for QL systems ? What ...

Random numbers are where DES/AES come in handy.