1997-11-05 - Re: Privacy Software
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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: Adam Back <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Reply To: <199711031141.DAA01497@sirius.infonex.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-11-05 17:46:28 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:46:28 +0800
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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:46:28 +0800
To: Adam Back <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Privacy Software
In-Reply-To: <199711031141.DAA01497@sirius.infonex.com>
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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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