[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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