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Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Outerbridge)
Wed Oct 16 18:53:19 2013
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From: Richard Outerbridge <outer@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <2CE9C56B-774E-4152-8A21-237337F9954F@lrw.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:26:40 -0400
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
On 2013-10-16 (289), at 17:10:00, Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com> wrote:
> Can we separate the issue of actual issues in the Linux RNG from the responses to this paper?
> [....]
> Random numbers are way too important to allow the kinds of dismissive responses we've been seeing.
>
> -- Jerry
Can't resist:
"Picking random numbers is far too important to be left to chance."
__outer
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