Adding Fortuna as a new prng

[Zhanna Tsitkova]

LibTomCrypt copyrights header :

/* LibTomCrypt, modular cryptographic library -- Tom St Denis
  *
  * LibTomCrypt is a library that provides various cryptographic
  * algorithms in a highly modular and flexible manner.
  *
  * The library is free for all purposes without any express
  * guarantee it works.
  *
  * Tom St Denis, tomstdenis at gmail.com, http://libtom.org
  */

Marko Kreen copyrights header :

* Copyright (c) 2005 Marko Kreen
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Thanks,
Zhanna


On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Sam Hartman wrote:

>    Zhanna> 1. Code borrowing. At the moment we know about two open
>    Zhanna> source implementations of Fortuna in C. One of them is from
>    Zhanna> libTomCrypt project and another one circulates under
>    Zhanna> "Copyright (c) Marko Kreen" license. The opinion was
>    Zhanna> expressed that even though libTomCrypt license does not  
> have
>    Zhanna> any restrictions, it is somewhat faceless, and consequently
>    Zhanna> might be an issue for the lawyers. So, perhaps, Marko
>    Zhanna> Kreen's implementation is a better bid.
>
> I don't understand this point.
> Can you please post the license or a link to the license for the code
> you plan to include.

Zhanna Tsitkova
tsitkova at mit.edu