On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:13:18PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > Yes, urandom is not guaranteed to be 100% > random, it may degenerate to a simple pseudo-RNG. Still, it would be > extremely hard for an attacker to guess the state of this pseudo-RNG We have computers to automate these 'hard' problems. And it's been done before. Netscape was once cracked this way. > Which is much better > than no encryption at all, and sufficient for most real-world purposes. Snake oil. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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