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Re: The Marsaglia Random Number CD-ROM needed

From	Chax Plore <ftilojim@tznvy.pbz>
Newsgroups	sci.crypt, sci.crypt.random-numbers
Subject	Re: The Marsaglia Random Number CD-ROM needed
Date	2024-09-11 10:31 +0200
Organization	i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
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On 2024-09-09 06:12, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:15:27 +0100
> Chax Plore <ftilojim@tznvy.pbz> wrote:
> 
>> Good day, everyone,
>>
>> I am searching for untouched version of George Marsaglia's Diehard
>> CD-ROM. By "untouched" I mean bit-identical ISO copy of original CD-ROM
>> disc.
<snip>
> 
> * bump *
> 
> Did you find your seek?
> 
> The project was tied to the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-8807976 and DMS-9206972.
> 
> If you pull the public grant info and contact the named authors and administrators, you might be able to get the whole food chain of everyone that contributed, then begin going down the list to contact them one-by-one.
> 
> See NSF grant award info:
> 
> https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8807976&HistoricalAwards=false
> 
> The NSF should have archived copies of the original CD-ROMs and research data. A FOIA request might help.
> 
> Also you might check with Florida State University's research and IT departments and track down the contacts named in the grant award.
> 
> Then there is the archived web site for the project:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20160125103112/http:/stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/

FOIA seem to be an overkill for the task.
Web archive of project website contains files from disc (not all of 
them) and no ISO image was provided.


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Re: The Marsaglia Random Number CD-ROM needed Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net> - 2024-09-09 04:12 +0000
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