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Re: DIGEST-MD5 and {nonce,cnonce}

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Subject: Re: DIGEST-MD5 and {nonce,cnonce}
From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <kurt@boolean.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:10:59 -0700
Cc: erc@pobox.com, misa@necomm.ro (Mihai Ibanescu), Bastiaan.Bakker@lifeline.nl
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References: <199910251837.NAA06266@khijol.org> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910251926220.2056-100000@roadrunner.is.necomm.ro>

At 12:32 PM 10/25/99 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>Rand(3) provides a sequence of psuedo-random numbers.  The
>amount of entropy in these numbers cannot be greater than
>the seed used to determine the sequence.

Poor wording:  The amount of entropy in the series of numbers
cannot cannot be greater than the seed used to determine the
sequence.  That is, the series numbers are not independent.

Kurt

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Kurt D. Zeilenga		<kurt@boolean.net>
Net Boolean Incorporated	<http://www.boolean.net/>

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