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Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Jan 16 00:15:40 2014
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:59:58 -0800
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 1/15/14 at 7:38 AM, demonfighter@gmail.com (Steve Furlong) wrote:
>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.
If the system uses a PRNG, it isn't a OTP. It is a stream cypher
using the PRNG to generate the cypher stream.
Cheers - Bill
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