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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nico Williams)
Fri Oct 18 20:30:21 2013
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:15:15 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
In-Reply-To: <1382138857.16207.41.camel@heisenberg.scientia.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:27:37AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:08 -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> > This
> > is a severe problem if such an app is invoked early in boot and blocks
> > the rest of the bootup procedure.
> And? A thousand times better than revealing all your secrets by using
> bad entroy.
Didn't I say that in exactly the next sentence?!
You went to all the trouble of quoting this one sentence separately from
the preceding and following sentences, then corrected me with the
contents of the very following sentence... Why?
Nico
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