Perry Metzger wrote:
So, the next time one of your friends in Germany asks why the crazy
Americans think ID cards and such are a bad thing, remember my
father, and remember all the people like him who fled to the US over
the last couple hundred years and who left children that still
remember
Hadmut Danisch quoted As a german codebreaker in World War II:
Even experts didn't know until some years ago that german
deciphering specialists broke ciphers of the allied in the second
world war.
German success against the M-209 is discussed in David Kahn's The
Codebreakers. It cites a 1962
It's a /dev/urandom which has been labeled /dev/random. It claims
to be a Yarrow implementation so is presumably only 160 bits strong.
(See http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow-notes.html.)
From http://www.hmug.org/man/4/urandom.html:
/dev/urandom is a compatibility nod to Linux. On Linux,
