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From: | Lapo Luchini |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Re: fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded |
Date: | Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:18:22 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080303) |
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
What else are random numbers used for? As I understand it, signing does not use random numbers, but maybe I'm confused.IIRC signatures do include random nonces -- I think this is one of the things I picked up from Paul's rants about our cryptography -- but I could be wrong too.
AFAIR he was complaining about the very fact that we currently use signatures that don't, and proposed to change 'em =)
Lapo
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