Python Random Number Generator for OTP

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Wed Jul 24 12:46:24 PDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:37:10PM +0200, Albin Olsson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> > My /dev/random generates a few hundred kilobytes a day.  I exchange OTPs
> > on a SD card to a friend sitting across the table.  I need to be able to
> > make a bigger pad than allowed by the horrifically overly conservative
> > entropy estimates provided by /dev/random.
> 
> What OTP software do you use for actual communication?

I don't use it for anything real, because among other issues there's no
message integrity, but: onetime.

-andy



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