Re: RNG in a Smart Card

mok-kong shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:59:55 +0100

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Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
> I've just been informed of another example of a very questionable RNG. Have a
> look at https://spk-ihb.izb-hb.de/SPK_Forchheim/index.html, the first thing
> you'll be asked to do is move your mouse a bit to generate a 128-bit session
> key for use in Internet banking. Apparently moving your mouse in a 10cm
> straight line is enough to generate 128 bits of entropy. Java types may want
> to look at this in a bit more detail.

I attempted to access the URL twice but it's funny that in both
cases my PC halted. Maybe it was just coincidence.

M. K. Shen

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