Re: entropy depletion

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Laurie
William Allen Simpson wrote: Why then restrict it to non-communications usages? Because we are starting from the postulate that observation of the output could (however remotely) give away information about the underlying state of the entropy generator(s). Surely observation of /dev/urandom's outp

Simson Garfinkel analyses Skype - Open Society Institute

2005-01-11 Thread David Wagner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Voice Over Internet Protocol and Skype Security >Simson L. Garfinkel >http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/articles_publications/articles/security_20050107/OSI_Skype5.pdf >Is Skype secure? The answer appears to be, "no one knows". The report acc

Re: Entropy and PRNGs

2005-01-11 Thread Ed Gerck
John Denker wrote: For the sources of entropy that I consider real entropy, such as thermal noise, for a modest payoff I'd be willing to bet my life -- and also the lives of millions of innocent people -- on the proposition that no adversary, no matter how far in the future and no matter how resou