Hi,

> On 29 Oct 2019, at 04:18, Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> I mean, we literally say "Reducing the possibility of this is why the
> pledge is mandated to generate a strong random or pseudo-random number
> nonce."  So to also say "the nonce [...] does not require a strong
> cryptographic randomness" seems to be in conflict with the former
> statement.
> Are you saying that "strong random" and "strong cryptographic random" mean
> different things, or am I misreading the document in some other way?


I would just drop the statement.  The whole point of the nonce is to prevent 
replay attacks, so why would we want to weaken that?

Eliot

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