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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2011-09-21 14:02:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2011-09-21 14:02:02 -0400 |
| commit | 5dafc783b0732faa2b866caa81d0b4b680d31ed1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a66324b09a3b4922e69023c363fbc46e6b55625 /tor-spec.txt | |
| parent | 8d51fb27adcddca401a7d77c5b69bc25a199adaa (diff) | |
| download | torspec-5dafc783b0732faa2b866caa81d0b4b680d31ed1.tar.gz torspec-5dafc783b0732faa2b866caa81d0b4b680d31ed1.zip | |
Tighten up what tor-spec means by "random".
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diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt index 7998946..48cdd94 100644 --- a/tor-spec.txt +++ b/tor-spec.txt @@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ see tor-design.pdf. When we refer to "the hash of a public key", we mean the SHA-1 hash of the DER encoding of an ASN.1 RSA public key (as specified in PKCS.1). - All "random" values should be generated with a cryptographically strong - random number generator, unless otherwise noted. + All "random" values MUST be generated with a cryptographically + strong pseudorandom number generator seeded from a strong entropy + source, unless otherwise noted. The "hybrid encryption" of a byte sequence M with a public key PK is computed as follows: |