[Cryptography] [cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

Bear bear at sonic.net
Thu Jan 16 19:18:19 EST 2014


On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 10:38 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> > Huh?  How can this be?
> > one-time-pads themselves are compromised??
>  
> Compromised PRNGs.
>  

PRNG's have nothing to do with one-time pads.  Compromised PRNG's 
affect stream ciphers, but one time pads do not use PRNG's. 

Bear





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