Re: Fwd: [pkzip's prng]

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staym@accessdata.com
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:55:31 -0600

Yes, I know about the Koscher / Bilham known-plaintext attack. But
knowing that the random number generator *actually implemented* is a
truncated linear congruential generator [like rand()] would get a foot
in the door in the absence of any plaintext. 

-- 
Mike Stay
Cryptographer / Programmer
AccessData Corp.
mailto:staym@accessdata.com

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