questions on RFC2631 and DH key agreement

' =JeffH ' Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com
Tue Feb 5 14:02:29 EST 2008


ashwood at msn.com said:
> *nix /dev/urandom should work well, the entropy harvesting is reasonably
> good, and the mixing/generating are sufficient to keep it from being the
> weak link. 

yeah, that's the way it sounds from the man page (on linux). thx. 


> Actually I'm saying that if p and g do not change, then there is no
> additional leakage of the private key beyond what Eve can compute anyway. 

ok, gotcha.

thanks again,

=JeffH


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