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Re: Re-keying Issues Document
> Also, the claim that one can rely on adequate randomness
> being available in the general case without hardware
> specific to that purpose, is hard to believe. There are
> lots of systems that deal with lots of nearly repetitive or
> predictable stuff...
Even so, they do have their own hardware, and the details of its behavior
are often not entirely predictable -- there is some useful randomness
lurking in the low-order bits. The key word here is "adequate"; some
randomness is definitely available, given cleverness, but whether it's
enough depends on your needs.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
(henry@zoo.toronto.edu)
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