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What if you had a very good entropy source, but only practical at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thierry Moreau)
Thu Jul 22 16:21:53 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:44:59 -0400
From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau@connotech.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
See http://www.connotech.com/doc_pudec_descr.html .
(OK, it's also practical whenever the server needs servicing by trusted
personnel.)
Then, you care about the deterministic PRNG properties, the secrecy of
its current state, and the prevention of PRNG output replays from an
out-of-date saved state.
And bingo, you solved the random secret generation issue satisfactorily!
Regards,
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