From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:29:56 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: Mousepad RNG's?
Message-ID: <199609290112.UAA17712@bluestem.prairienet.org>
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To: jamesd@echeque.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sat Sep 28 20:04:39 1996
> Netscape was broken through weakness in the source of 
> truly random numbers.

No, it wasn't.  Netscape was broken because their
random numbers (really pseudorandom) were chosen
from very poor sources (on Unix boxes, pid and
ppid, maybe even the system clock :)

dave



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