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Re: [Cryptography] [cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bear)
Thu Jan 16 22:58:00 2014
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From: Bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:18:19 -0800
In-Reply-To: <CAOFDsm1aSqVOWkT7uLyCjHENFcCADvXSNAoQzNuQOHeGAb02HA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, cryptography@randombit.net,
Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
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On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 10:38 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org> wrote:
> > Huh? How can this be?
> > one-time-pads themselves are compromised??
>
> Compromised PRNGs.
>
PRNG's have nothing to do with one-time pads. Compromised PRNG's
affect stream ciphers, but one time pads do not use PRNG's.
Bear
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