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Re: DIGEST-MD5 and {nonce,cnonce}



At 12:32 PM 10/25/99 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>Rand(3) provides a sequence of psuedo-random numbers.  The
>amount of entropy in these numbers cannot be greater than
>the seed used to determine the sequence.

Poor wording:  The amount of entropy in the series of numbers
cannot cannot be greater than the seed used to determine the
sequence.  That is, the series numbers are not independent.

Kurt

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