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
* 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
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