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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