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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56
Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
It seems to me that if you want a PRNG, you should use one,
rather than transforming a new, untested cipher into a PRNG.
Yarrow is designed to be a cryptographically strong PRNG.
www.counterpane.com
Adam
Berke Durak wrote:
| Hello,
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| I was considering using RC6 as a strong PRNG, however I was told that
| RC6 is patented by RSADSI and that this might cause problems in the
| future. Since RC6 is actually an AES submission, and since AES requires
| the candidate algorithms to be licence-free (or am I wrong?) I thought
| it would be ok to use it. Any info ?
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| Thanks.
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| PS.I was advised to use RC4 instead.
|
| Berke Durak - berke@gsu.linux.org.tr - http://gsu.linux.org.tr/kripto-tr/
| PGP bits/keyID: 2047/F203A409 fingerprint: 44780515D0DC5FF1:BBE6C2EE0D1F56A1
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:56