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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys


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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