On May 2, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
> There are a few well-documented ways to gather usable, unique seeds, such as:
>
> * getting the user to type for 10-20 seconds, randomly picking chars entered
> (PGP used this technique when initially generating the keys for the user)
>
On 03/05/2013, at 10:38 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> That's a good point.
>
> However, I only need a random number once ever per customer; it's to
> encrypt their license keys & privileges.
In a licensing situation, usually the software developer will hold the private
key, and will distribute the
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
wrote:
> On 03/05/2013, at 3:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
> Dr. Hawkins, while using online services like random.org may provide you
> with a higher level of randomness, it introduces the old problem of
> internet reliability. Chances are, tha
On 03/05/2013, at 3:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> I need to generate RSA key pairs (one pair per client).
>
> I see the openssl key generation possibility, but that's still relying
> on my system for "randomness". I'd *like* to pull random numbers
> (say, from random.org) and generate the keys fr
