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[Leif Johansson]

On 2016-02-03 09:40, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Joachim Strömbergson <joachim at secworks.se> writes:
> 
>> I would also like to know what tool Zhigang Wang used to generate the number.
> 
> Probably Google.  Then you cut & paste what's in the first search result on
> Stackexchange.
> 

https://twitter.com/stackexchange/status/623139544276299776

> (It really is that bad, the amount of crappy code that gets propagated through
> there is scary: people have a problem they can't easily solve, Google leads
> them to Stackexchange where others have had the same problem, they grab the
> code there, done).
> 
> Alternatively, it could have been 128 bytes from /dev/random.  "FIPS 140 needs
> a random number of size X, this is a random number of size X":
> 
> https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%E2%80%9Cstring+to+make+the+random+number+generator+think+it+has+entropy%E2%80%9D
> 
> Peter.
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