-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On April 16, 1996 jf_avon@citenet.net said:

I fed the result of pgp +makerandom=2000 rnd.pgp into noisesphere.exe

Every times, it gives a distribution that looks like a zebra from the top view. Any comments?

This is a bug in PGP. +makerandom doesn't work properly. I discovered this a few week ago myself when I needed some random numbers for another project. Due to a programming bug, the idea based random number generator doesn't get initialized (read: doesn't get seeded at all) when +makerandom is used. Note: +makerandom is an undocumented feature. IMPORTANT: Only +makerandom is effected. In normal use PGP properly generates random session keys as well as RSA public key pairs. -Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMXmiyMUtR20Nv5BtAQHiYwP/dEAf5w0KstdALRabGYeUOlhEEN+fvVJH +TE215jh91EvPP2h9XqnOS5tWKiHpAjoRng5yUF6vyfD9rsHTS9EkCPC+yrlAkPb E5XrnAsOx3W1EkkT2kA15RDePt8lOpXetltNVBsGqBMEupCFExYldz7h6o9g9DQj e+NSMQZzIB8= =m21a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----