[Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Oct 30 16:36:00 EDT 2013


On 2013-10-31 04:09, Jerry Leichter wrote:
 > "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence."
 > One of the really bad things about the NSA's apparent attempts to
 > subvert crypto is that it leads you to question this assertion.  We
 > just have no way of knowing.

Sure we do.  Committees are always stupid, unless they are under the
control of a small conspiratorial minority of evil people.  We have
many indicators that committees under the influence of NSA are smart.

Therefore evil.


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