From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 16:00:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Add-in encryption module to Netscape
Message-ID: <199604210453.VAA01630@netcom9.netcom.com>
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At  3:42 PM 4/20/96 -0500, Alex Strasheim wrote:
>The best answer for these sorts of problems (at least for those of you not
>constrained by ITAR) might be java form processing applets that use their
>own crypto routines to submit the data.

I have thought about the sources of entropy available to a Java applet, and
there aren't many.  You should design your protocol so entropy is not
needed on the applet side.  Entropy is normally used to pick symmetric
encryption keys, and Initialization vectors


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