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Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Sep 12 10:32:52 2013
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:03:58 +1200
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: jis@mit.edu, zooko@zooko.com
In-Reply-To: <20130911055301.GI28803@zooko.com>
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zooko <zooko@zooko.com> writes:
>I agree that randomness-reuse is a major issue. Recently about 55 Bitcoin
>were stolen by exploiting this, for example:
>
>http://emboss.github.io/blog/2013/08/21/openssl-prng-is-not-really-fork-safe/
Was that the change that was required by FIPS 140, or a different vuln?
Peter.
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