Re: learning PRNG state on startup

2000-08-28 Thread Bodo Moeller
>> Another one problem exists: the very first run of PRNG use only half >> of that hash that cuts the search space half. That is, even properly >> seed PRNG(several hundreds of bytes) will output first >> MD_DIGEST_LENGTH/2 bytes subject to search-it-all attack with search >> space MD_DIGEST_LENGT

Re: learning PRNG state on startup

2000-08-18 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
Hi! first let me state, that I had some private conversation about this issue with Vadim, before and after he posted this message. Unfortunately nobody else jumped onto the train, so I will add my $0.02 at this point to stimulate discussion :-) On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:28:42PM +0300, Vadim Fed