Re: compressing randomly-generated numbers

2006-08-11 Thread james hughes
On Aug 9, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Travis H. wrote: Hey, I was mulling over some old emails about randomly-generated numbers and realized that if I had an imperfectly random source (something less than 100% unpredictable), that compressing the output would compress it to the point where it was

RE: compressing randomly-generated numbers

2006-08-11 Thread Jeremy Hansen
I was mulling over some old emails about randomly-generated numbers and realized that if I had an imperfectly random source (something less than 100% unpredictable), that compressing the output would compress it to the point where it was nearly so. Would there be any reason to choose one

Re: compressing randomly-generated numbers

2006-08-11 Thread Damien Miller
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Travis H. wrote: Hey, I was mulling over some old emails about randomly-generated numbers and realized that if I had an imperfectly random source (something less than 100% unpredictable), that compressing the output would compress it to the point where it was nearly so.

RE: SSL Cert Prices Notes

2006-08-11 Thread Trei, Peter
It is with some irony I note that this message from Peter Saint-Andre failed a signature check - startcom isn't among the trusted roots in my copy of Outlook. Peter Trei -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre Sent: Wednesday,

mac os x safari ssl cipher suite

2006-08-11 Thread Joe Cooley
I recently inspected ssl packets from the following apps: firefox 1.5.0.6 safari 2.0.4 (419.3) curl 7.15.4 with OpenSSL/0.9.7i I found that they list the following cipher suites during the client hello handshake protocol: (snippets from ethereal -V output...) safari (22): Cipher Suite: