1995-09-25 - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available
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From: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-25 06:43:25 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 23:43:25 PDT
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From: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 23:43:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In-Reply-To: <4454nu$da8@tera.mcom.com>
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In article <4454nu$da8@tera.mcom.com>, karlton@neon.netscape.com (Phil Karlton) writes:
> Details: While navigating through menus or typing into various form
> fields, the Navigator uses the unpredictability of details of the
> user actions to increase the entropy of the RNG state.
Note that clicking in the main window or on URLs, and timing of
network activity cause the state of the RNG to be updated.
--Jeff
--
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
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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>