NODE aa89405eNew aproach in pgp-randomizer!!!
blaster@kiae.su (Victor A. Borisov)Wed, 13 Oct 93 03:36:37 PDT
Hello!
Today I saw paraphysics randomizer in pgp:
pgp -kg was run;
it ask me about user id and passphrase;
then it run generation (it wrote like this: ............ ++++);
But, as we see, it did not ask about key typing!!! The most intresting
pgp generate key pair and rendseed.bin-file. I thinck this is related to
new topsecret paraphysics randomyser (today is 13.10.93).:)
Some words about technical ditails:
Hardwate - i486; Software - MS-DOS 3v30 (I boot from protected floppy and
ran good antivitus utility before keypair generation). PGP 2v3a was run.
I have expiriance in pgp (i maintain pgp-keys server).
I keep keypair and randseed file and try to repiad this fantastic result, but
paraphysic energy is go out :).
Mr. Zimmermann, I hope, that this was really paraphysic (or my mistake:(),
because the trust to crypt-program is very unstable thing.
NODE 5e2f421cRe: New aproach in pgp-randomizer!!!
Alan Mason <vznquest@netcom.com>Wed, 13 Oct 93 10:26:42 PDT
I experienced the same thing the first time I ran pgp 23 on my stone
generic 286 fossil. In fact, I was shocked when, a few weeks later, it
asked for keystrokes when doing -kg. Anyone have any ideas about this???
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1993, Victor A. Borisov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Today I saw paraphysics randomizer in pgp:
> pgp -kg was run;
> it ask me about user id and passphrase;
> then it run generation (it wrote like this: ............ ++++);
>
> But, as we see, it did not ask about key typing!!! The most intresting
> pgp generate key pair and rendseed.bin-file. I thinck this is related to
> new topsecret paraphysics randomyser (today is 13.10.93).:)
> Some words about technical ditails:
> Hardwate - i486; Software - MS-DOS 3v30 (I boot from protected floppy and
> ran good antivitus utility before keypair generation). PGP 2v3a was run.
> I have expiriance in pgp (i maintain pgp-keys server).
>
> I keep keypair and randseed file and try to repiad this fantastic result, but
> paraphysic energy is go out :).
>
> Mr. Zimmermann, I hope, that this was really paraphysic (or my mistake:(),
> because the trust to crypt-program is very unstable thing.
>
>