1996-04-23 - Re: PGP’s +makerandom is broken (was: Re: Article on PGP flaws)

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From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
To: timd@consensus.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-23 07:51:15 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:51:15 +0800

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From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:51:15 +0800
To: timd@consensus.com
Subject: Re: PGP's +makerandom is broken (was: Re: Article on PGP flaws)
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I have a Java applet which runs 10K bytes of output of pgp +makerandom
through a noise sphere program.  It looks random to me.  I don't know how
it compares with jf_avon's observations.  Judge for yourself.

http://www.portal.com/~hfinney/java/noise/noise.html

Hal





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