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eugene at codepoet
Sep 22, 2000, 6:19 AM
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Hello,

Just a quick Q. A while back (a year or so ago) it was mentioned in the
readme file that win32 version of GPG was nto to be considered secure
because its entropy generator was a bit ify. Now I can find no mention of
this either on the site or the Readme included w/ the binary. Can that be
taken to mean that its no longer a problem? Sorry if this seems a pointless
question, but better safe than sorry : )

PS: please CC me, I am not on the list.

Thanks!

Eugene

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Re: GNU for win32 [ In reply to ]
wk at gnupg
Sep 27, 2000, 3:46 AM
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Eugene wrote:

> Just a quick Q. A while back (a year or so ago) it was mentioned in the
> readme file that win32 version of GPG was nto to be considered secure
> because its entropy generator was a bit ify. Now I can find no mention of

The random stuff has been rewritten is is now basically the same
code as the one from Peter Gutmann's Cryptlib (Kudos to Peter for
putting this part under the GPL) and we have done a lot of testing
with different CPUs and MS OSes. There is no prove but I believe
that the RNG for Windows is now okay.

Ciao,

Werner

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