Truelly Random Numbers
A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security
PADGETT at hobbes.orl.mmc.com
Sat Mar 2 11:49:51 PST 1996
>The number of randomly selected 768 bit primes that you would need for a
>reasonable chance of a birthday collision is 1.708E104
True however the current mechanism of generating PGP keys which consists
primarily of pseudo-randomly pounding on a keyboard is hardly "truely random.
Have no idea of the true number but expect it to be significantly less than
that quoted above, even for a 1024 bit key like mine.
Warmly,
Padgett
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