[44857] in Cypherpunks
Re: latest librand source now av
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Dec 6 18:42:29 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Dec 1995 22:43:30 -0300."
<9512062243.AA04215@anon.penet.fi>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 18:19:45 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
an116512@anon.penet.fi (Shithead) writes:
> In .cypherpunks, Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com> writes:
> >Souce code for the latest version of librand (a random
> >number package based on event interval variations) for
> >Unix-like machines is now available in:
> > ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/librand.shar
>
> why the FUCK would anyone want to use random number code from at&t,
> (and mister nescape GAK apologist himself)? this the code that was
> broken by french student for christs sakes.
What drugs, exactly, have you been taking, and where can we buy them?
They are obviously very good, although it appears that you are getting
a bit of a paranoid edge from them.
(For those not in the know...
1) Matt Blaze is the guy that, among other things, embarassed the NSA
with his discovery of flaws in Tessera, which made the front page
of the times.
2) His code has nothing to do with Netscape, and neither does he.)
.pm
