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Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.)

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Subject: Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.)
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 17:05 EDT
Cc: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]

From:	IN%"[email protected]" 22-FEB-1996 13:20:54.73

>In any case, throwing away some selected portion of its output is NOT
>an appropriate cure for a broken random number generator.

>The proper cure is fixing the generator.

	If I understand the matter correctly, looking at and sorting out a
given set of outputs is bad. Looking at a sample (that is _not_ used) and
using it to decide how much putting-together (XORing) of the rest to do is OK.
They appear to be doing the former.
	-Allen

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