I wonder if you are confusing the length in bits of a PKC key, e.g. a
prime factor of an RSA public key, with the entropy of that private
key. The prime factor may be 512 bits long, but it usually does not
have anyway near 512 bits of randomness. Usually a secret prime is
generated by adding a
Hi,
Can someone please correct the following?
I expect a PRNG with an internal state of n bits to produce output that
is predictable given n consecutive bits of output. Is that correct? If
so, then doesn't a PRNG used to generate a key require at least as large
an internal state as the key le
This is a pre-announcement for the April 2000 Cypherpunks Meetings.
The Bay Area meeting will be held in two places at once,
April 8, 2000, 1-6pm.
The 10th Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference http://www.cfp2000.org/
will be in Toronto April 4-7, and many of the Usual Suspects will be there
