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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Oct 30 16:41:47 2013
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:36:00 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
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On 2013-10-31 04:09, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence."
> One of the really bad things about the NSA's apparent attempts to
> subvert crypto is that it leads you to question this assertion. We
> just have no way of knowing.
Sure we do. Committees are always stupid, unless they are under the
control of a small conspiratorial minority of evil people. We have
many indicators that committees under the influence of NSA are smart.
Therefore evil.
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