[5128] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: depleting the random number generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Sun Jul 18 03:00:39 1999
From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:46:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: bram <bram@gawth.com>
Cc: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907171616300.24526-100000@ultra.gawth.com>
bram writes:
> Most of the fancy reseedable PRNG schemes people have come up with are
> based on using secure hashes.
They are sure validated, but are they the best we can do? MD5, the
nonplusultra, really?