In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Willi
am Knowles writes:
Snakeoil?
[Smells like it. --Perry]
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/1110/fin10.htm
I don't know if it's really snake-oil -- it's possible, of course, that
they've developed a new, useful encryption algorithm, though of
It has all the hallmarks of snakeoil.
After a bit of searching around, I found another article at the Sunday Times
(not noted for it's fact checking) and a company site. I'll include their
page
on the method below. It looks like typical snake oil - the description
includes
a number of errors
I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
source. After 'n' seconds turn the network card into promiscuous mode,
+ "P.J. Ponder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
| There is an interesting article in the New Scientist about attempts to
| prove the Reimann Hypothesis. Alain Connes is one of the people
| mentioned; he's working on a method based on quantum chaos. The article
| doesn't mention cryptography, oddly, among
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Rich Salz wrote:
I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
source. After 'n' seconds
Rich Salz writes:
I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
source. After 'n' seconds turn the network
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:19:53PM -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
source.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why don't you stick a sound card (the noisier, the better) into each
node, and dump /dev/dsp (LSB) input at max amplification into the
randomness pool?
There's no reason to put only the LSBs in the randomness pool, if the
pool is properly designed. Put all the data
Others have responded as to why this is not so hot an idea.
It sounds like your trying to obtain more entropy than you really
need - I would have thought that the built in hardware RNG in
the newer Intel chips would do the job. Barring that, stick in one
of the various cryptographic coprocessor
At 10:19 PM -0500 11/15/2000, Rich Salz wrote:
I'm putting together a system that might need to generate thousands of RSA
keypairs per day, using OpenSSL on a "handful" of Linux machines. What do
folks think of the following: take one machine and dedicate it as an entropy
source. After 'n'
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