1995-09-26 - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse

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From: Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
To: jirib@cs.monash.edu.au
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Reply To: <199509250402.OAA17312@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-26 19:42:27 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:42:27 PDT

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From: Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:42:27 PDT
To: jirib@cs.monash.edu.au
Subject: Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse
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While it is true that on some versions of X you can watch mouse events on
other peoples computers, it is also true that on some versions you can
watch keyboard input.  At CMU Bennet Yee wrote a program to get peoples
passwords as they typed them in using X's poor/non-existent security back
then.  This was before xauth. 

I still think that the low bits of the mouses X and Y positions as the
user moves the mouse around the screen are a very good source of random
bits for Netscape.

   --  Vince

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• 1995-09-21 (Thu, 21 Sep 95 15:22:52 PDT) - real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
  • 1995-09-22 (Thu, 21 Sep 95 19:15:29 PDT) - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - Deranged Mutant <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>
  • 1995-09-25 (Sun, 24 Sep 95 21:06:43 PDT) - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
    • 1995-09-26 (Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:42:27 PDT) - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - Vincent Cate <vince@offshore.com.ai>
      • 1995-09-27 (Tue, 26 Sep 95 17:27:37 PDT) - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
        • 1995-09-27 (Tue, 26 Sep 95 17:26:57 PDT) - Re: real randomness for netscape - user clicking mouse - “Jeff Weinstein” <jsw@netscape.com>