[39809] in Cypherpunks
Re: Seeds which depend on machine states
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Sep 21 21:33:09 1995
To: MIGUELDIAZ@megaweb.com (Miguel Diaz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 1995 05:02:10."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:28:45 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Miguel Diaz writes:
> It is my suspicion that seeds which depend on machine
> states(ie state of your computer at a specific instance of
> time) would always be subject to scrutiny and de-cryption.
> As long as the software used to encrypt is not self-modifying,
> the machine state can (through careful manipulation involving
> temperature, clocks, processes etc)always be replicated and
> fixed to an acceptable degree.
Try getting a human to type with the same timing, to microsecond
precision, the same way twice.
Perry
