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Prior two Edward Snowden's whistle blowing I think you could perceive the maintainer as paranoid around leaving the project (see linked thread) however now I th
by denrober 13y ago
Prior two Edward Snowden's whistle blowing I think you could perceive the maintainer as paranoid around leaving the project (see linked thread) however now I think you can't discount what, if any, cooperation technology companies have been providing to the NSA.
- dfc 13y agoI am not sure I agree that before Snowden this could have been perceived as paranoid. As part of the discussion on the crypto list Ben Laurie brings up an important point: "But what's the argument for _not_ mixing their probably-not-backdoored RNG with other entropy?"[1] Does your answer to this really change that much "pre-Snowden"? [1] http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/004745.html http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-July/...