From: tomw@orac.engr.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 13:13:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Security Update news release
In-Reply-To: <DFIKyx.63G@sgi.sgi.com>
Message-ID: <199509261955.MAA02671@orac.engr.sgi.com>
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In article <DFIKyx.63G@sgi.sgi.com>, shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) writes:

> Do the new versions use PGP's randseed.bin? If Netscape even only looks at
> data used to keep PGP secure,  Netscape will be banned from my computer
> and every computer I am responsible for. -- For good.

This is ludicrous.  You couldn't compromise PGP's security even if you
posted the contents of randseed.bin to the net.  It's contents are
carefully sanitized before it's saved to disk and before it's used.

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