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Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Neuhaus)
Wed Oct 16 17:13:36 2013
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:05:37 +0200
From: Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
In-Reply-To: <D3EECDC9-C637-48F5-B3E6-458F93E1C0A4@lrw.com>
Cc: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>,
Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On 2013-10-16 19:58, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> I'm amazed and disturbed by the nature of the responses to this
> paper. [...] This paper is a step along a
> path begun in 2005 by Barak and Halevi (the instant paper has
> extensive references), and, frankly, it's about time.
It should also be a step along a path begun in 1998 and continued in
2000 by Peter Gutmann. /dev/random is among those that are analysed
(obviously as it was in 2000).
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/06_random.pdf
Fun,
Stephan
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now.]
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