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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