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On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Nick Tarleton wrote:
> > > Also, I doubt if our poky old RCX could generate new keys in a
> > > reasonable amount of time, so they'd probably have to be imported.
> > yah - I don't think the RCX will have a good generator of random
> > numbers.
>
> Well, maybe. Maybe not. legOS has a random() function, right?
The key word is a "good" generator. Random() is way too predictable to use
in a crypto application.
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| (...) Excellent point, Benton Jackson e-mailed me with the following: (...) Good idea using a external sensor to seed some sort of random number generator function. However, the codebase for PGP is pretty darned large and after looking at the source (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Even if it needed FP, legOS supports that. (...) Well, maybe. Maybe not. legOS has a random() function, right? Once the TCP/IP patch is stable, why not use an RCX as an echo server with built in en/decryption? You could just telnet to it, type (...) (22 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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