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rand-test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Cobb)
Wed Nov 22 04:27:13 1995
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:18:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "James M. Cobb" <jcobb@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Friend,
The following information from
CIAC Bulletin G-04: X Authentication Vulnerability
November 20, 1995 22:00 GMT
may be of use to you:
If you cannot use DES, you can determine your expo-
sure to remote attackers by testing the strength of
your rand() function using the program rand-test; the
source is available as
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/rand-test/rand-test.c
Cordially,
Jim
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