1995-09-25 - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Message Hash: c92822df69e6993b69aad4aafae64299e0f95420297af6c00fc36e5713df6898
Message ID: <199509251137.HAA13703@frankenstein.piermont.com>
Reply To: <445j6k$h03@tera.mcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-25 17:22:06 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:22:06 PDT
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:22:06 PDT
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In-Reply-To: <445j6k$h03@tera.mcom.com>
Message-ID: <199509251137.HAA13703@frankenstein.piermont.com>
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Jeff Weinstein writes:
> More on the RNG stuff. On Unix systems we look for ~/.pgp/randseed.bin,
> and feed it through the RNG hash.
You should search for the PGPPATH environment variable rather than
making assumptions about where it is...
> On Unix and PC systems we feed the environment through the hash, so
> that would be a good place for a concerned user to put some random
> stuff of their own.
Not a bad idea, but not a substitute for extracting enough bits of
entropy on your own...
Perry
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- 1995-09-25 (Sun, 24 Sep 95 19:39:47 PDT) - Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - karlton@neon.netscape.com (Phil Karlton)
- 1995-09-25 (Sun, 24 Sep 95 23:43:25 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
- 1995-09-25 (Sun, 24 Sep 95 23:46:33 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:05:33 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:14:56 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
- 1995-09-26 (Tue, 26 Sep 95 05:42:01 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - “David R. Conrad” <drc@russell.moore.com>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:22:06 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:24:53 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - Bob Snyder <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 11:19:15 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - Jon Mittelhauser <jonm@netscape.com>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:09:45 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - “David J. Bianco” <bianco@itribe.net>
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 15:13:06 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
- 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 14:43:02 PDT) - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available - Phil Karlton <karlton@netscape.com>