At 09:45 AM 1/9/2013, Sean Mullan wrote: >think it is unlikely that 2 providers would implement the same SecureRandom >algorithm, since the names are not standardized like other cryptographic >algorithms such as SHA-256, RSA, etc.
Can this be fixed? There really should be a flavor for this. E.g. SP800-90a/SHA256/HASH SP800-90A/SHA256/HMAC SP800-90A/AES/CTR NRBG/NoisyDiode[/implementation id] NRBG/RingOscillator[/Implementation id] There are about 6 classes of NIST "approved" deterministic random number generators. See http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips140-2/fips1402annexc.pdf. I wouldn't be surprised to find that multiple providers implement the same RNGs, but don't have a common name for them. In fact, according to wikipedia, the underlying function for MSCAPI is the FIPS186-2 appendix 3.1 with SHA1 function. Mike
