Seeds which depend on machine states
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Thu Sep 21 18:28:55 PDT 1995
Miguel Diaz writes:
> It is my suspicion that seeds which depend on machine
> states(ie state of your computer at a specific instance of
> time) would always be subject to scrutiny and de-cryption.
> As long as the software used to encrypt is not self-modifying,
> the machine state can (through careful manipulation involving
> temperature, clocks, processes etc)always be replicated and
> fixed to an acceptable degree.
Try getting a human to type with the same timing, to microsecond
precision, the same way twice.
Perry
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