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[Joachim Strömbergson]

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Aloha!

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.
> 
> (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

I
> 
think my soul just got a few more scars and dark spots.

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Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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