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Re: depleting the random number generator -- repeated state
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bram)
Wed Jul 28 13:21:31 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:45:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: bram <bram@gawth.com>
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <14238.19933.368801.18707@lrz.de>
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> So what's the magic with the entropy pool? Because current algorithms
> don't have enough state, and because the hidden structure of their
> pseudorandomness starts shining through after a while?
The idea is to make it so that if there is a failure, and an attacker does
find out what the internal state of the pool is, it won't be useful for
long.
-Bram
