, you'll have more reading material than you know what to
do with.
Bill Rebey
-Original Message-
From: Douglas Wikström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 5:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Cipher question...
Hello!
I know that a larg
Hello!
I know that a large PKI company uses their own homemade entropy
collector to initialize the seed for the keygeneration of their
smartcards. The entropy collector requires the admin to move around the
mouse for quite a while, so this might not be applicable in a case
requiring automation. (
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 12:41:14PM -0400, Bill Rebey wrote:
> This has all been incredibly helpful, and I've been trying to read up on
> this matter. I'm finding radioactive isotope counters, FM static samplers,
> thermal noise samplers, etc. Lots of cool hardware solutions. I need a
> software
This has all been incredibly helpful, and I've been trying to read up on
this matter. I'm finding radioactive isotope counters, FM static samplers,
thermal noise samplers, etc. Lots of cool hardware solutions. I need a
software solution, though, and they seem quite elusive. The obvious
questio
What gives?
-Original Message-
From: Gregory Stark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 2:46 PM
To: Bill Rebey
Cc: Gregory Stark
Subject: Re: Cipher question...
Bill,
First of all, don't be discouraged; the problem of getting a good seed
for a ran
Sleep(random(2));
QueryPerformanceCounter (&val);
seed[c][ii] |= (unsigned )(val.LowPart & 0x01);
Sleep(random(2));
}
RAND_seed (seed, sizeof (seed));
-Original
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Subject: RE: Cipher question...
> From: Lutz Jaenicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:09 PM
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Bill Rebey wrote:
> > [what's the PRNG seed data used for, and why is it important?]
&
> From: Lutz Jaenicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:09 PM
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Bill Rebey wrote:
> > [what's the PRNG seed data used for, and why is it important?]
> The question is not the amount of data, it is the amount of
> "unpredicta
/Douglas
Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bill Rebey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:52 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Cipher question...
> >
> >
>
>
&
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Rebey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 7:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Cipher question...
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>
> Even if all 64 bytes in my seed array are the same, (say for i
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:51:34PM -0400, Bill Rebey wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out. Like I said, I knew the array would probably
> contain 64 instances of the same values, but I didn't know it was so
> terrible, largely because I don't even understand what the big pool of data
> is really
une 20, 2000 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Cipher question...
Bill Rebey wrote:
... an broken snake oil random generator.
> Start by running something like this before you do other SSL stuff:
> time_t seed[64];
>
Bill Rebey wrote:
... an broken snake oil random generator.
> Start by running something like this before you do other SSL stuff:
> time_t seed[64];
> for (int ii = 0; ii < 64; ii++)
> {
> time_t t = time (NULL);
>
Start by running something like this before you do other SSL stuff:
time_t seed[64];
for (int ii = 0; ii < 64; ii++)
{
time_t t = time (NULL);
seed[ii] = t;
}
RAND_seed (
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