1995-09-25 - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available
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From: “David J. Bianco” <bianco@itribe.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: ee319b1bc93f226b0af66d1a768e2abe09e6e2b2c14698390030cef8fe0c808b
Message ID: <199509251256.IAA27310@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
Reply To: <4454nu$da8@tera.mcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-25 17:09:45 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:09:45 PDT
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From: "David J. Bianco" <bianco@itribe.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:09:45 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In-Reply-To: <4454nu$da8@tera.mcom.com>
Message-ID: <199509251256.IAA27310@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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On Sep 25, 2:38, Phil Karlton sent the following to the NSA's mail
archives:
> Subject: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
|| As is mentioned in the README, more will need to be done to find more
|| bits of entropy. (Too much of a good thing is still not enough.)
|| However the security team believes that the RNG seed is no longer the
|| weak link and candidate for attack. So I am personally volunteering
|| to have my had shaved if a discovered deficiency in this code results
|| in an easily attacked generated seed. [You will be expected to show
|| your work. :-)]
||
Will you put a picture up on http://www.netscape.com/ someone does find
a problem? 8-)
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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>