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From: | Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: | Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:26:15 +0100 |
> I would like to see an additional API which allows code to degrade > session key randomness to a mere PRNG (i.e. /dev/urandom instead of > /dev/random). In a theoretical sense, this sacrifices Perfect Forward > Secrecy This is not really true. Only if you consider the /dev/urandom algorithms and the libgcrypt PRNG broken. regards, Nikos
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