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Re: questions on RFC2631 and DH key agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (' =JeffH ')
Wed Feb 6 13:38:15 2008
To: "Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com>
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-reply-to: "Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com> 's message of
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:49:49 -0800
Reply-to: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
From: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:02:29 -0800
ashwood@msn.com said:
> *nix /dev/urandom should work well, the entropy harvesting is reasonably
> good, and the mixing/generating are sufficient to keep it from being the
> weak link.
yeah, that's the way it sounds from the man page (on linux). thx.
> Actually I'm saying that if p and g do not change, then there is no
> additional leakage of the private key beyond what Eve can compute anyway.
ok, gotcha.
thanks again,
=JeffH
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