AES test module

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Oct 4 13:26:34 CEST 2000


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


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