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From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: An advantage of RSA encryption
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Am 04.08.2015 um 16:56 schrieb Richard Heathfield:
> On 04/08/15 14:49, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> The problem is: Evidently (unless one wants to argue for argument's
>> sake) the (common) case is that one doesn't yet have a CSPRNG and
>> wants to have such a one to generate PRNs for an application. Now
>> how does one proceed??
>
> Either one is capable of writing one's own high-quality CSPRNG (in which
> case one wouldn't be asking the question), or one finds a good, reliable
> CSPRNG that is already publicly available for one's platform and which
> has been analysed by the cryptographic community and found to be fit for
> purpose.

The one CSPRNG based on RSA that is described in HAC is a good,
reliable CSPRNG or not in your opinion? If yes, then one wants to
have that in doing an implementation accordingly. What's wrong with that???

M. K. Shen
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