On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Lange wrote: >> >> Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?! > > Apologies, I had thought it was obvious. >
You've missed the spirit of my question, I think. I looked only at Kenneth's post and saw something that described a complex and (I think) wrong way to generate a random byte. More broadly, generating your wireless key with a cryptographically secure RNG seems to me to be overkill for most people. Buying specialty dice for it seems plain silly.[1] Flipping a coin eight times doesn't take much longer than rolling 4d4, 2d16 or rolling 3d8 and dropping a bit, and saves you a trip to the shops. Recent events have reminded us that randomness is just as important in SSH key generation. I'd save my dice (and my time) for things that actually guard my data. jml [1] The last time I went dice shopping, I didn't see any d16s for sale. They are uncommon even in the world of tabletop roleplaying. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
