Security Update news release

Tom Weinstein tomw at orac.engr.sgi.com
Tue Sep 26 13:13:53 PDT 1995


In article <DFIKyx.63G at sgi.sgi.com>, shamrock at netcom.com (Lucky Green) writes:

> Do the new versions use PGP's randseed.bin? If Netscape even only looks at
> data used to keep PGP secure,  Netscape will be banned from my computer
> and every computer I am responsible for. -- For good.

This is ludicrous.  You couldn't compromise PGP's security even if you
posted the contents of randseed.bin to the net.  It's contents are
carefully sanitized before it's saved to disk and before it's used.

-- 
Sure we spend a lot of money, but that doesn't mean    |  Tom Weinstein
we *do* anything.  --  Washington DC motto             |  tomw at engr.sgi.com






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