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Ah, interesting. I think I recall reading that attacks against crypto can be helped by uptime estimates. Uptime can be used as a source of "randomness" in PRN
by gnosis 13y ago
Ah, interesting. I think I recall reading that attacks against crypto can be helped by uptime estimates.
Uptime can be used as a source of "randomness" in PRNGs, so knowing that bit of information could clearly be beneficial to an attacker.