On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
- Select an interval near the desired size
[ 2^1023 + 1^1022 + 1 , 2^1024 - 1 ]
- Sieve out composites divisible by small primes
- Select two probable primes such that (p - q) is reasonably large
(2^100 or so) to
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, redpath redp...@us.ibm.com wrote:
When using this command
openssl genrsa -out test.pem 2048
an RSA pair is created. Its not so much I want to know how a pair is
randomly selected
but how secure is that random selection.
It depends. In theory, the way
Until someone breaks the website, spoofs it, buys out the owner, etc.
Q2.4: Are the numbers available in a secure fashion?
Yes, since April 2007 you can access the server via https://www.random.org/
I should probably note that while fetching the numbers via secure HTTP would
protect them from
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Salz, Rich rs...@akamai.com wrote:
Until someone breaks the website, spoofs it, buys out the owner, etc.
Q2.4: Are the numbers available in a secure fashion?
Yes, since April 2007 you can access the server via https://www.random.org/
I should probably note
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, redpath redp...@us.ibm.com wrote:
When using this command
openssl genrsa -out test.pem 2048
an RSA pair is created. Its not so much I want to know how a pair is
randomly selected
but how secure is that random selection.
It depends. In theory, the way
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On 11 Dec 2012, at 3:27 PM, redpath wrote:
an RSA pair is created. Its not so much I want to know how a pair is randomly
selected but how secure is that random selection. Random number generators
are a series and this selection could be followed for brute force deciphering.
I think the
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:27 PM, redpath redp...@us.ibm.com wrote:
When using this command
openssl genrsa -out test.pem 2048
an RSA pair is created. Its not so much I want to know how a pair is
randomly selected
but how secure is that random selection. Random number generators are a
