Bad PRNGs have jumped the shark. For a company like Apple to have a supposedly secure PRNG in their products and for them not to have had a group of security Nazis identify all the PRNGs in their products and make sure they're all good and fix them where not, it unconscionable.
In my company we systematically did exactly that. It's standard practice these days.
For crypto uses you need both deterministic PRNGs and non deterministic RNGs. You can compose a non deterministic RNG out of a PRNG an entropy source and an entropy extractor.
They have different uses. E.G. A secure PRNG can be used as a cipher. E.G. AES-CTR mode encryption is just XORing the output of a PRNG with the data.
A deterministic PRNG is a component function of larger systems. It is deterministic because that's what it is and what it needs to be.
So while the tin-foil-hatters were all pointing their fingers at Intel, who provide a full cascade RNG that isn't weak, doesn't have a back door and has stood up to scrutiny, they weren't paying attention to the OS vendors who were getting it wrong despite the hardware available to them.
The labor government before her was economically stupid. The Thatcher government was both economically and socially stupid. Nothing much was going on with the post Thatcher government. Blair's government was a significant improvement, but he screwed the pooch at the end by siding with Bush. It was all down hill from there.
> Thatcher and Reagan who got it right 10+ unemployment in the UK and stagflation in the US and both governments going into debt. They certainly didn't get it right.
Margaret Thatcher may have been a truly horrific Prime Minister, but she wrote the book on how to shut down a mining industry.
Smear them in the press. Sequestrate the assets of the unions. Send in a few thousand thugs to beat them up and secretly burn down a few cottages while blaming Welsh nationalists.
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That's not the job of a PRNG. Entropy gathering is something else.
Bad PRNGs have jumped the shark. For a company like Apple to have a supposedly secure PRNG in their products and for them not to have had a group of security Nazis identify all the PRNGs in their products and make sure they're all good and fix them where not, it unconscionable.
In my company we systematically did exactly that. It's standard practice these days.
For crypto uses you need both deterministic PRNGs and non deterministic RNGs. You can compose a non deterministic RNG out of a PRNG an entropy source and an entropy extractor.
They have different uses. E.G. A secure PRNG can be used as a cipher. E.G. AES-CTR mode encryption is just XORing the output of a PRNG with the data.
A deterministic PRNG is a component function of larger systems. It is deterministic because that's what it is and what it needs to be.
>Its called FIPS140-2. Among other things it requires that PRNG implementations are strong.
No. It required that a DRBG within a FIPS140-2 boundary, used in a FIPS140-2 function, be compliant with NIST SP800-90(A).
SP800-90A contains both secure and non-secure DRBGs.
So while the tin-foil-hatters were all pointing their fingers at Intel, who provide a full cascade RNG that isn't weak, doesn't have a back door and has stood up to scrutiny, they weren't paying attention to the OS vendors who were getting it wrong despite the hardware available to them.
They already did. They attend the meetings. They're open meetings, you can go can meet them and argue with them if you think their contributions suck.
Only in the US.
I didn't buy my phone from a network operator. Unlocking the boot loader and rooting it is covered in the documentation.
I don't think they get a say in the matter if consumers buy their own phones.
How about phone makers make generic hardware, like PC makers do? Then we can just install the OS of our choice on it.
Yes. I made that bit up for comedic effect. But with all the other stuff that has come out over time, I wouldn't be surprised.
It's not the core that's the issue. It's the testing.
I have one (a HDHP). I haven't been arrested yet.
Unlike the moon landings, it was possible to take a short drive and see the burnt out cottage for yourself. I'm pretty sure they were burned down.
The labor government before her was economically stupid. The Thatcher government was both economically and socially stupid.
Nothing much was going on with the post Thatcher government.
Blair's government was a significant improvement, but he screwed the pooch at the end by siding with Bush.
It was all down hill from there.
> Thatcher and Reagan who got it right
10+ unemployment in the UK and stagflation in the US and both governments going into debt. They certainly didn't get it right.
Could you write that more quickly please?
But CAMRA understood urban warfare better than Arthur Scargill
The similarities were not lost on all concerned at the time.
No, but all the A.C.s have been. I can prepare a list if you like.
Well it was iron ore where I lived. Coal was indeed uneconomic because it was all deep shaft mining after the easy stuff had been got at.
You betcha.
What does horse racing have to do with it?
Margaret Thatcher may have been a truly horrific Prime Minister, but she wrote the book on how to shut down a mining industry.
Smear them in the press. Sequestrate the assets of the unions. Send in a few thousand thugs to beat them up and secretly burn down a few cottages while blaming Welsh nationalists.
It worked a treat.
Nope. Common sense.