[Cryptography Team] type some random characters to seed the random numbers (was: CTR mode, SecureRandom, ElGamal updates)

Tom Phoenix rootbeer at redcat.com
Sat Feb 18 23:26:53 CET 2006


On 2/18/06, satru pakala <spakala at gmail.com> wrote:

> You said to use "SecureRandom fromUser nextRandom160".
> Can you please tell me what is fromUser and what is for nextRandom160?
> is fromUser is the fingerprint image?

You seem to be thinking that those strings are stand-ins
(metasyntactic variables) for some data. That's Smalltalk code; those
strings are message names. Chris is telling you to print the result of
running that code, probably in a Workspace. Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix


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