Do not use GnuPG under Mac OS RNG

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Tue Jun 26 22:04:01 2001


 || On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:36:46 +0200 (MET DST)
 || Johan Wevers <johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl> wrote: 

 jw> Will using a v3 RSA key help?

Yes RSA is not affected by a bad RNG in the sense that key material
will leak. It doesn/t matter whether it is a 3 or 4 RSA key.  Of
course you should not generate a RSA key with a bad RNG.

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