Re: Fortuna

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:22:25PM -0400, Jean-Luc Cooke wrote:
> And the argument that "random.c doesn't rely on the strength of crypto
> primitives" is kinda lame, though I see where you're coming from.  random.c's
> entropy mixing and output depends on the (endian incorrect) SHA-1
> implementation hard coded in that file to be pre-image resistant.  If that
> fails (and a few other things) then it's broken.

You really ought to look at the _current_ implementation. There is no
SHA1 code in random.c. 

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