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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