Re: First quantum crypto bank transfer

2004-08-22 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:00 PM 8/21/2004, Florian Weimer wrote: However, I still don't believe that quantum cryptography can buy you anything but research funding (and probably easier lawful intercept because end-to-end encryption is so much harder). I agree that it doesn't look useful, but lawful intercept is

Re: First quantum crypto bank transfer

2004-08-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jerrold Leichter: | Not quite correct, the first bank transfer occurred earlier this year, | in a PR event arranged by the same group: | | http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/rathaus_press.html | | However, I still don't believe that quantum cryptography can buy you | anything but

Re: Microsoft .NET PRNG (fwd)

2004-08-22 Thread Ben Laurie
Anton Stiglic wrote: There is some detail in the FIPS 140 security policy of Microsoft's cryptographic provider, for Windows XP and Windows 2000. See for example http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/140-1/140sp/140sp238.pdf where they say the RNG is based on FIPS 186 RNG using SHS. The seed is based on