Re: What's the netscape problem

• To: Bob Denny <rdenny@netcom.com>
• Subject: Re: What's the netscape problem
• From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <9509211024.ZM918@solo.dc3.com>

On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Bob Denny wrote:

> My God... They couldn't have been _that_ sloppy. I feel fairly certain that 
> they used the RSA BSAFE library, and hopefully the RNG that comes with it, for 
> the RSA keypair generation. But maybe they didn't seed it carefully either.

The whole Netscape problem was poor seeding.

> ... 
>   -- Bob

Donald
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