begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:16:28PM -0800: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:14:25 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > With regards to the fingerprinting... it seems like a trivial thing > > to fuzz the clock skew randomly, and so render the whole scheme useless. > > Yes, yes. But random by what measure? What if the "random" skew is > actually correlatable by those who know what RNG you're using?
Thus, the need for a _real_ source of randomness. Of course, there's no knowing what PRNG you're using today, nor what the seed is. > [threads so far off topic they come back and meet themselves. my goodness.] Ain't drift wonderful? -Stewart "Sandbar" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
