Re: Question on PRNG's and entropy

2000-09-08 Thread Gregory Nicholls
Michael Wojcik wrote: > Hmm. Seeding PRNGs on Windows and Unix are pretty well-understood problems; > there's Yarrow for Windows (www.counterpane.com) and egd for Unix, Yeah but both of these are external processes. We can't (for various reasons) rely on, or require the installation of, any su

Re: Question on PRNG's and entropy

2000-09-06 Thread Gregory Nicholls
Hiya, Michael Wojcik wrote: > How do you select a "random bit" of a message if you don't have a source of > randomness in the first place? From a cryptographic perspective, you'd best > assume an attacker knows which bit of the message you're using, even without > knowing what the message conta

RE: Question on PRNG's and entropy

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Wojcik
> -Original Message- > From: Gregory Nicholls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > The data I need to encrypt is your basic bit of user data going from > system A to system B. Now given that the whole point of encrypting this > is to prevent someone from reading the data, is there any reason why