FW: RES: Secure connections

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Eric J. Gustafson wrote:

>  Here's a fun one:
>  http://lavarand.sgi.com/
>  
>  This one's a little more practical:
>  
>  http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Getting random via a network connection is a bad idea - many folks are
then able to sniff it.  Okay, gpg's RNG is not compromised becuase it
takes it entropy from more than one source - but it does not make much
sense to add these.  You are doing serious encryption on a networked
box? Tsssss :-)

  Werner

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