Using SURF as a random data source

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Greetings.

Is it reasonable to use surf as a cryptographically strong random data
source?

Obviously, if I use random secret data for both the seed and the input,
the result will also be secret.  The biggest question I have is how to
generate more than one output from the same secret in a robust manner.

If the math for SURF is sound (and I have no reason to doubt it is),
then simply treating the input as one long 384-bit counter will produce
a random number stream that is 2^(384*8) words long.  This seems to be
the simplest way of producing a random data source with a known period.
Will this work as described?

Thank you.
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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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