Re: [cryptography] philosophical question about strengths and attacks at impossible levels

2010-11-24 Thread coderman
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marsh Ray ma...@extendedsubset.com wrote: How about all the weak and insufficiently seeded RNGs out there? it's more than a little annoying how many accelerated crypto implementations exist while good entropy is still a scarcity. why isn't this a native

[cryptography] USB Entropy source / RNG

2010-11-24 Thread Rayservers
Hi, http://www.entropykey.co.uk/tech/ Opinions? Anyone used this? Any other reasonably priced alternatives? Ubuntu and Debian have packages. Best, Ray -- Rayservers http://www.rayservers.com/ Zurich: +41 43 5000 728 London: +44 20 30 02 74 72 Panama: +507 832 1846 San Francisco: +1 408 419

Re: [cryptography] philosophical question about strengths and attacks at impossible levels

2010-11-24 Thread Marsh Ray
On 11/24/2010 02:11 PM, coderman wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Marsh Rayma...@extendedsubset.com wrote: (that's the abridged version. this is actually more complicated than many assume, and i've written my own egd's in the past to meet need.) Ya. How does this feature interact

[cryptography] RNG, was Re: philosophical question about strengths and attacks at impossible levels

2010-11-24 Thread travis+ml-rbcryptography
BTW, I have a RNG mlist for those who are interested in such discussions: http://lists.bitrot.info/mailman/listinfo/RNG I've thrown out some egd-like ideas as well, including a system that allows randomly-generated bits to flow from the box with the RNG over a LAN to the systems that need them,

Re: [cryptography] USB Entropy source / RNG

2010-11-24 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Rayservers supp...@rayservers.com wrote: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/tech/ Opinions? Anyone used this? Any other reasonably priced alternatives? Use a sound card or USN sound device? http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

Re: [cryptography] philosophical question about strengths and attacks at impossible levels

2010-11-24 Thread coderman
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Marsh Ray ma...@extendedsubset.com wrote: ... So are you saying it is or it isn't Cloud-Compliant? hah, i rant at length on the mistaken security assumptions of cloud computing. (remember when it was grid computing?, and before that ...) i'll try to stay on