On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 13:17 -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:
>   Calling the LFSR 8 times does not
> result in an output value that is any less predictable than calling
> it once 

If you only call an M bit LFSR  once next value V(N+1) be 

EITHER

V(N+1) = 2 V(N) + 1 mod 2^^M 

OR

V(N+1) = 2 V(N) + 0 mod 2^^M

So there's only 1 bit of randomness.  You do need to call it P times to
get P random bits.

Peter

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