On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:59:53PM -0500, Walton, Jeffrey wrote: > This is a general guestion. PGP provides a prewash of material using MD5 > (and they also use IDEA instead of 3DES) (I think the reference I have is > correct). Looking at the source for AutoSeededX917RNG, I think a prewash > should be fairly simple. > > 1) Is it desireable (or needed)?
No it's not needed. The random numbers provided by the operating system has already been "washed" by the OS usually with SHA1.
