potential solutions to this.
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on the shuttle are obsolete by modern standards, and it's
possible that the communications security is similarly aged.
Isn't it also possible that the device contains a physical key of some
kind?
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Thor Lancelot Simon says:
Many operating systems use Linux-style (environmental noise
stirred with a hash function) generators to provide random
and pseudorandom data on /dev/random and /dev/urandom
respectively. A few modify the general Linux design by adding an
output buffer which is not
Arnold G. Reinhold says:
This result would seem to raise questions about SHA1 and MD5 as much
as about the quality of /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Naively, it
should be difficult to create input to these hash functions that
cause their output to fail any statistical test.
I would think
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I can just see it coming --
their email was in the clear and we still coudln't find them; imagine
how much harder it will be when everybody uses cryptography.
I don't think we can win either way.
Of course, when everybody uses state-sanctioned security, the
