Hi, --- Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to verify that a remote random number generator is actually random?
Are you asking if the remote random number is authentic? That would make it similar to a key exchange over an insecure channel and asking: are the keys exchanged authentic & untampered? In classical cryptography, there is no way of doing a secure key exchange without a pre-shared secret.
Actually, this may not be impossible, particularly with TOR, but rather than take a stab in the dark I'm interested in seeing what's already known about this.
Tor uses onion routing but eventually you will need a pre-shared secret with the PRNG server, to ensure that the number you receive is authentic. Sarad. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com