[89514] in Cypherpunks
Re: Privacy Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Nov 5 13:25:45 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711042232.WAA04306@server.test.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 09:41:59 -0800
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 2:32 PM -0800 11/4/97, Adam Back wrote:
>What's wrong with the randseed.bin and the public and private key
>rings is that they should all be encrypted with a key derived from
>your passphrase.
Think about it for a minute. randseed.bin is a place to store entropy.
Entropy is about uncertainty. If I do a reversible transform (e.g.
encrypt) to randseed.bin, I still recover the entropy without reversing
(e.g. decrypting) the transform.
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