[Forwarded] NIST Requests Comments

2008-12-13 Thread Perry E. Metzger
From: "Elaine Barker" Subject: NIST Requests Comments To: Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:13:45 -0500 NIST requests comments on Draft SP 800-56B, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Using Integer Factorization Cryptography. This Recommendation provides the specifications of asymmetric-base

Re: CPRNGs are still an issue.

2008-12-13 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James A. Donald wrote: > If one uses a higher resolution counter - sub > microsecond - and times multiple disk accesses, one gets > true physical randomness, since disk access times are > effected by turbulence, which is physically true > random. Until someone runs your softw