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- From: cschmidt@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Christopher Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Encryption and Random Numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.211502.18511@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:15:02 GMT
- Reply-To: cschmidt@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Christopher Schmidt)
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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- Duncan Murdoch's interesting STREAMS package includes some
- clever encryption logic that uses the TP random number
- generator. It's a nice technique, except that if Borland
- modifies the TP random number generator, then you and your
- customers will be locked out of your encrypted data.
-
- What exactly are the chances Borland will modify the TP
- random number generator? Do you feel lucky?
-
- Simple solution: Include your own random number generator in
- your program. Anybody have such in TP? I notice there is a
- random number generator in C in the SIMTEL directory
- <MSDOS.C>, but I have not looked at it yet.
-
- Christopher Schmidt
- Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- cschmidt@lynx.northeastern.edu
-