| Re: How to generate cryptographically-secure random big-integers? [message #170223 is a reply to message #170222] |
Wed, 20 October 2010 11:02   |
Erwin Moller
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On 10/20/2010 12:28 PM, +mrcakey wrote:
> "Erwin Moller"
> <Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much(at)spamyourself(dot)com> wrote in
> message news:4cbebb8d$0$81484$e4fe514c(at)news(dot)xs4all(dot)nl...
> <snip>
>> 1) /dev/random
>> And in case you are on Linux, have a look at /dev/random/
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random
>> It says: "It allows access to environmental noise collected from device
>> drivers and other sources.", which sounds promising, as in impossible for
>> the man-in-the-middle to predict.
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> Permission to emit a lengthy Bill& Ted style "woooooooooooooooooooah"?
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Permission granted. :-)
But please clarify a little what it means to this poor chap from the
Netherlands. I have no clue who Bill & Ted are. ;-)
So I don't know if the 'wooooah' means:
1) "bullshit advice"
or
2) "yes! /dev/random rocks!"
or even
3) "you clearly have no clue what you are talking about"
In case of 1 or 3 I kindly point to my disclaimer under my post. ;-)
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
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