[Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust

Richard Outerbridge outer at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 16 17:26:40 EDT 2013


On 2013-10-16 (289), at 17:10:00, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

> Can we separate the issue of actual issues in the Linux RNG from the responses to this paper?

> [....]

> Random numbers are way too important to allow the kinds of dismissive responses we've been seeing.
> 
>                                                        -- Jerry 

Can't resist:

"Picking random numbers is far too important to be left to chance."
__outer



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