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Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Furlong)
Wed Jan 15 13:02:59 2014
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:38:07 -0500
From: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
To: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Cc: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
cryptography@randombit.net
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 07:48 PM, John Young wrote:
>> Even precious OTP is compromised, the "gold standard" of
>> industry pure-blooded progeny. No matter, cryptologists are
>> dogged and faithful as rutting canines.
> Huh? How can this be?
> OTP has always ranged from difficult to impractical to securely deploy,
and
> the larger system where OTP is used will offer targets for attack, but
> one-time-pads themselves are compromised??
Compromised PRNGs.
--
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On W=
ed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Kent Borg <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mai=
lto:kentborg@borg.org" target=3D"_blank">kentborg@borg.org</a>></span> w=
rote:</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">=A0</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">> On 01/1=
4/2014 07:48 PM, John Young wrote:</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">>>=
Even precious OTP is compromised, the "gold standard" of<br>
>> industry pure-blooded progeny. No matter, cryptologists are<br>
>> dogged and faithful as rutting canines. <br>
<br>
> Huh? =A0How can this be?</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><br>
> OTP has always ranged from difficult to impractical to securely deploy=
, and</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">>=A0the larger system where OTP is=
used will offer targets for attack, but</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">&g=
t;=A0one-time-pads themselves are compromised??</div>
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">=A0</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">Compromised =
PRNGs.</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">=A0</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote">=
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">
</font></span>-- <br>Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, =
1209<br>
</div></div></div>
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