On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Dan Brown <danibr...@blackberry.com> wrote:

> ‎Section 3, of the eprint "Ron is wrong, Whit is right", subsection
> "Moduli with shared primes", suggests to me that it's not unlikely when
> seeding two secrets near in time, one has low entropy (by accident). That's
> not the only explanation of the observed shared primes, but is plausible
> and relevant to the question at hand. (I thought I mentioned this earlier.)
>

If the PRNGs produce identical output, that is bad, but that seems easy to
protect against: check that the seeds are actually different.  This is also
what personalization strings are designed to protect against.

-- 
Colm
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