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| | This one hits close to home. I can't imagine how the NIST staff involved in creating SP 800 (and more specifically, the SP 800-90A Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation...bit) must feel. First of all, given the definition of a deterministic system, the title itself gives me pause. Maybe there's some next-level random number theory described in the standard, but I'm not sure I'd ever want a random number generator to exhibit deterministic behavior.
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| | Numpy uses plain old implementation of Mersenne Twister as the default pseudorandom number generation.
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| Note: this post will probably only really make sense to cryptography geeks. In "When a KEM is notenough", I described how to construct multi-recipient (public key) authenticated encryption. A naïve approach to this is vulnerable to insider forgeries: any recipient can construct a new message (to the same recipients) that appears to come from the...