[Cryptography] Techniques for malevolent crypto hardware

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:34:55 -0400 Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org>
wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 06:16 PM, John Kelsey wrote:
> > I don't think you can do anything useful in crypto without some
> > good source of random bits.
> 
> I don't see the big worry about how hard it is to generate random 
> numbers unless:

Lenstra, Heninger and others have both shown mass breaks of keys based
on random number generator flaws in the field. Random number
generators have been the source of a huge number of breaks over time.

Perhaps you don't see the big worry, but real world experience says
it is something everyone else should worry about anyway.

Perry
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