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Re: [TLS] Last Call: draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext (Additional Random

"Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil> Mon, 26 April 2010 20:54 UTC

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-----Original Message-----
From: Of Dean Anderson

> So where are these non-pseudo, truly secure random numbers going to
come
> from? I think Nowhere, they don't usually exist in practice, except
> maybe at the NSA.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

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