Article on PGP flaws

jf_avon at citenet.net jf_avon at citenet.net
Wed Apr 17 04:54:43 PDT 1996



            David Lesher <wb8foz at nrk.com>
  Says if 
> someone gets your randseed.bin they can infer the PRNG output sequence 
> and your IDEA key.  Doesn't develop in any detail.  Says the IDEA key 
> should be chosen from _truly_ random numbers.

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?

JFA






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