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Re: An advantage of RSA encryption

From Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: An advantage of RSA encryption
Date 2015-08-02 21:04 +0200
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Am 02.08.2015 um 19:36 schrieb Johannes Bauer:
> On 01.08.2015 23:04, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
>> In the Maurer's algorithm there is nowhere a mention that the PRNs
>> used must be from a CSPRNG. So the requirement is statistically
>> satisfactory, which Python's PRNG satisfies extremely well.
>
> It is unfortunate that you do not realize how blatantly obvious the
> requirement for high-quality entropy sources for key generation really is.
>
> Looking at the forum entry you posted you got exactly this advice
> already about one year back and haven't even considered the implications
> of your botched implementation. I'm not going to invent the time to
> explain the blatantly obvious to you when you have sufficiently proven
> that you ignore any advice which is given to you.

If HAC and Maurer don't mention that a CSPRNG is required to
implement Maurer's algorithm, I can't imagine that they (both)
had by pure chance forgotten to do that, if a CSPRNG were indeed
necessary to do that implementation.

M. K. Shen

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An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-01 16:52 +0200
  Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-01 20:17 +0200
    Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-01 23:04 +0200
      Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-02 04:32 +0200
      Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-02 19:36 +0200
        Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-02 21:04 +0200
          Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-08-03 17:31 +0000
            Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 14:44 +0200
              Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 14:01 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 15:07 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 14:21 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 15:24 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 14:43 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 15:49 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 15:56 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 22:05 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-08-04 15:24 +0000
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 22:10 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 21:42 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 23:05 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-04 22:18 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 23:58 +0200
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 16:45 -0700
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 16:55 -0700
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-08-04 22:12 -0700
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-05 07:58 +0100
                Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 08:06 -0700
  Re: An advantage of RSA encryption "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 06:50 -0400
    Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-03 18:28 +0200
      Re: An advantage of RSA encryption "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 22:07 -0400
        Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-06 11:01 +0200
  Re: An advantage of RSA encryption Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-04 15:26 +0200

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