Re: Security Engineering vs. Crypto Academics... (was strengthening /dev/urandom)

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:29:14 +0000 (UTC)

Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>Umm.... either this "contortion" (which takes 3 lines of C code!) is
>trivial, in which case it doesn't make the analysis any harder, or it
>isn't, in which case it might help. You can't have it both ways....

Well, every trivial tweak makes analysis a teeny bit harder.
Add 10 or 20 trivial contortions, and analysis can get really messy.

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