AES test module

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:26:34 +0200


On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Thomas Roessler wrote:


> In this case you would be in deep trouble, given that _many_ session
> keys are created, and that DSA needs strong random numbers, too.
In fact we are not using a RNG for the session keys but a PRNG which is additionally seeded with what we can get quick. For DSA it is more important never to use the same random number (the x parameter) and the PRNG we are using hopefully has this property. Ciao, Werner -- Werner Koch GnuPG key: 621CC013 OpenIT GmbH http://www.OpenIT.de