Michael Wojcik wrote:
> Here are a couple more techniques for generating some entropy. Like the
> ones Lutz and Bill have been discussing, they have drawbacks - in
> particular, there's no guarantee how much entropy they'll produce, or how
> quickly.
Quite so -- even hardware RBGs have very lim
Greg Stark wrote:
> The server can just add the master secret into its RNG (along with other
> entropy of course). I don't think the extra steps of having the client pass
> more random bytes adds much if anything and requires this extra protocol to
> support and debug.
Be careful -- using th
Bill and Lutz,
The server can just add the master secret into its RNG (along with other
entropy of course). I don't think the extra steps of having the client pass
more random bytes adds much if anything and requires this extra protocol to
support and debug.
bsession. You may
overlook something else.
Michael Wojcik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MERANT
Department of English, Miami University
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:10:31 +0100
From: Lutz Jaenicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bill Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gathering Entropy quickly for openSSL
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