From: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 12:02:59 PDT
To: koontz@MasPar.COM (David G. Koontz)
Subject: Re: Netscape security
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| One tends to wonder if there are analytical methods to reduce the search
| space.

	I suspect that the PRNG used by Netscape navigator might yeild
up some clues if someone were to disassemble it.  One might see if
secret_key_data and public_key_data are derived from the same seeds.


Adam


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