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Re: Privacy Software

To: Adam Back <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Privacy Software
From: Bill Frantz <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:41:59 -0800
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> (message from Mixon Mon, 3 Nov 1997 03:41:27 -0800 (PST))
Sender: [email protected]

At 2:32 PM -0800 11/4/97, Adam Back wrote:
>What's wrong with the randseed.bin and the public and private key
>rings is that they should all be encrypted with a key derived from
>your passphrase.

Think about it for a minute.  randseed.bin is a place to store entropy.
Entropy is about uncertainty.  If I do a reversible transform (e.g.
encrypt) to randseed.bin, I still recover the entropy without reversing
(e.g. decrypting) the transform.

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