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This is the text from the original article. "For this reason, since PuTTY was developed on Windows before it had any cryptographic random number generator at a
by chasil 3y ago
This is the text from the original article.
"For this reason, since PuTTY was developed on Windows before it had any cryptographic random number generator at all, PuTTY has always generated its k using a deterministic method, avoiding the need for random numbers at all."
- gruez 3y agoBoth my proposed naive method and the PuTTY implementation are deterministic. The only difference is how the primitives (eg. SHA-512) are combined.