[Cryptography] Entropy Needed for SSH Keys?

David Kane-Parry dkp at ldd.org
Mon May 23 01:21:58 EDT 2016


On May 22, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> Dammit, I can neither remember nor find that quote about how using a deterministic process to make up random numbers is against nature, or grace, or the universe. Like I say, I can't find it.

"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”  From "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in Monte Carlo Method (1951) edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe, and H.H. Germond.

- d.



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