[squeak-dev] Cryptography: Fortuna>>nextInt:

C. David Shaffer cdshaffer at acm.org
Tue Jul 6 17:46:48 UTC 2010


On 07/06/10 13:19, Gary Chambers wrote:
> Well, wit as used by "old" Crypto package (3.9 era)... still useful in
> a general sense to avoid blow-up for large requests.
>
> Was just wondering if the current crypto use (prime generation) would
> run into similar problems.
>

Ah, you're right.  Looks like Random is used by RSA algorithm.  It also
is used in the base DigitalSignatureAlgorithm class which is not part of
the Cryptography package.  Neither of these use nextInt: though.   As I
understand it (
http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/)
you can submit this to the inbox...best if there is a test to go along
with it.

David

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