Al Qaeda crypto reportedly fails the test

2004-08-02 Thread John Denker
News article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3528502.stm says in part: The BBC's Zaffar Abbas, in Islamabad, says it appears that US investigators were able to unscramble information on the computers after Pakistan passed on suspicious encrypted documents.

NASA preps for launch of smart ID tags

2004-08-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
NASA preps for launch of smart ID tags By Junko Yoshida , EE Times August 02, 2004 (12:44 PM EDT) URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jht

RE: Microsoft .NET PRNG (fwd)

2004-08-02 Thread Peter Gutmann
>Forwarded here as the original forum is having no success. > >[...] > >I'm looking for the same information. I want to know which method does MS >Crypto API use in order to obtain "strong" random seeds. This is cross-posted back to the original list (with snippets from various postings) to try a