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Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available



On Sep 25,  2:38, Phil Karlton sent the following to the NSA's mail
archives:
> Subject: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
|| As is mentioned in the README, more will need to be done to find more
|| bits of entropy. (Too much of a good thing is still not enough.)
|| However the security team believes that the RNG seed is no longer the
|| weak link and candidate for attack.  So I am personally volunteering
|| to have my had shaved if a discovered deficiency in this code results
|| in an easily attacked generated seed. [You will be expected to show
|| your work. :-)]
||

Will you put a picture up on http://www.netscape.com/ someone does find
a problem? 8-)

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