Re: RE: HTTPS security model

2006-12-06 Thread urimobile
> I don't understand this argument at all. The two questions you > seem to > think are being confused are the *same* question.I don't think so.> When I > type in "https://www.amazon.com";, what I want> to know is - do I have a > secure connection to Amazon?This is an authentication question.> A

Re: Random number generator

2005-07-15 Thread urimobile
Of course all software RNG have their period! Because they are *P*RNG - PSEUDO random number generators. In other words - good enough for a limited time, and assuming that the adversary cannot get the seed. There can possibly be no software-based true RNG: if it is produced by an ALGORITHM, then