[VPN] How to calculate Key Length in DES and 3DES?
amason at mail.cebra.com
Tue Feb 25 15:57:49 EST 2003
When it's back up, a fun source of random numbers is:
From: Ryan Malayter [mailto:rmalayter at bai.org]
Sent: February 25, 2003 2:06 PM
To: vpn at lists.shmoo.com
Subject: RE: [VPN] How to calculate Key Length in DES and 3DES?
You can use a source like www.random.org as a source of random
characters, but I recommend using something you control physically like
dice, coin tosses, a bingo cage, whatever. Do NOT use a random number
generator built into a programming language, unless it is specifically
designed for secure number generation, like the one in GnuPG,
Microsoft's CryptoAPI, or /dev/random on Linux.
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