Mikkel Krøigård <m...@cs.au.dk> writes:

Hi everybody

> Indeed it should satisfy those properties. Say if you Shamir share
> something, the adversary might get t shares in order. If it can guess
> the next bit with non-negligible advantage, this will completely break
> our claim that the adversary has no information on the secret.
>
> Luckily it should not be hard to replace. I think we knew about this
> earlier but just forgot, actually.

No, we did not forget it -- it was designed from the start with an aim
towards making tests reproducible. This is why VIFF announces the random
seed when it starts and why the seed is chosen as a small integer.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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