Re: TRUE RANDOMNESS captured... (Keyboard-only)

Dutra de Lacerda (dulac@ip.pt)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 03:41:19 +0100

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At Friday, you wrote:
>I would like to reiterate that the proper way to use random numbers for
>cryptographic purposes is to conservatively estimate the amount of entropy
>in the source and then hash everything when the appropriate amount of
>entropy is available. Using RNG values raw for cryptographic purposes is
>very, very foolish.

RAND there is NOT a routine... but a variable.

No RNG values are used. Please Look Again.
No sugestion on its usage. Please read again.

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