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Re: [Cryptography] Techniques for malevolent crypto hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Sep 8 21:15:48 2013
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 21:15:41 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
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On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 20:34:55 -0400 Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 06:16 PM, John Kelsey wrote:
> > I don't think you can do anything useful in crypto without some
> > good source of random bits.
>
> I don't see the big worry about how hard it is to generate random
> numbers unless:
Lenstra, Heninger and others have both shown mass breaks of keys based
on random number generator flaws in the field. Random number
generators have been the source of a huge number of breaks over time.
Perhaps you don't see the big worry, but real world experience says
it is something everyone else should worry about anyway.
Perry
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