On Sep 25, 2:38, Phil Karlton sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
Subject: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available || As is mentioned in the README, more will need to be done to find more || bits of entropy. (Too much of a good thing is still not enough.) || However the security team believes that the RNG seed is no longer the || weak link and candidate for attack. So I am personally volunteering || to have my had shaved if a discovered deficiency in this code results || in an easily attacked generated seed. [You will be expected to show || your work. :-)] ||
Will you put a picture up on http://www.netscape.com/ someone does find a problem? 8-) -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco@itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/