1995-08-17 - SSL Challenge - Some thoughts

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From: goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-17 05:28:32 UTC
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From: goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 22:28:32 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: SSL Challenge - Some thoughts
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1. What kind of pseudo random number generator does Netscape use?

2. If it is a cryptographically secure sequence, doesn't that run up
against ITAR restrictions?

3. Can we improve upon the brute force algorithm in a non-probabilistic way?

4. If we are happy with a 5% yield, we can restrict ourselves to the same
5% of the key space for each message.

DJK







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