Confirming Random numbers?

[Sarad AV]

Hi,

--- Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to verify that a remote random number
> generator is actually 
> random?

Are you asking if the remote random number is
authentic? That would make it similar to a key
exchange over an insecure channel and asking: are the
keys exchanged authentic & untampered?
   In classical cryptography, there is no way of doing
a secure key exchange without a pre-shared secret.

 
> 
> Actually, this may not be impossible, particularly
> with TOR, but rather 
> than take a stab in the dark I'm interested in
> seeing what's already known 
> about this.


 Tor uses onion routing but eventually you will need a
pre-shared secret with the PRNG server, to ensure that
the number you receive is authentic.


Sarad.



 
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