I'm curious how PBKDF2 compares.
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:10 PM Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists <
li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> testing the lovely slowness of a pure scrypt implementation in
> javascript running into the browser, i was wondering anyone ever tried
> to think/design
There's an implementation of Fortuna, which is a computationally secure
PRNG, in PyCrypto:
https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/tree/master/lib/Crypto/Random/Fortuna
Unfortunately, gathering entropy is rather non-generic; otherwise decentish
operating systems get this wrong. The various BSDs' source
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:13 AM, ianG wrote:
> :) em, close, I advocate direct and sole use of your platform's RNG.
> Rule #1:
>
> http://iang.org/ssl/hard_truths_hard_random_numbers.html
>
> 1. Use what your platform provides. Random numbers are hard, which is
> the first thing you have to rememb