17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 2:32 PM -0800 11/4/97, Adam Back wrote:
What's wrong with the randseed.bin and the public and private key rings is that they should all be encrypted with a key derived from your passphrase.
Think about it for a minute. randseed.bin is a place to store entropy. Entropy is about uncertainty. If I do a reversible transform (e.g. encrypt) to randseed.bin, I still recover the entropy without reversing (e.g. decrypting) the transform. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Internal surveillance | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | helped make the USSR the | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | nation it is today. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA