[Courses] [security] Crypto Scientists Crack Prime Problem

[Megan Golding]

--- Sujita Purushothaman <sujita at mimos.my> wrote:
> what are the general sources of randomness
> people use to issue key pairs?

I've seen a few techniques used: 

Take lots of mouse positions after instructing the user to move the
mouse for some time. The positions wind up seeding the key
generation.

Take keyboard input. Ask the user to type "random" stuff and use that
to seed the key generation.

Intel overview on random seed generation:
http://www.intel.com/design/security/rng/rngbrf.htm

Tells developers (at a high level) how to obtain random seed data:
http://download.baltimore.com/keytools/docs/v50/ssl/j-docs/html/ssljdevguide-11.html

Someone from Netscape proposes add'l ways to get random seeds:
http://www.msg.net/utility/FWTK/netscape-random-seed.html


Meg


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