That raises the question, why aren't you using begging the question incorrectly like all other good upstanding 'muricans?

Begging the question:

Please please please question, don't hit me!

It's a system of threats and balances. The queen grants a constitutional basis to the parliament and the parliament grants continued existence to the queen. It's worked quite well since Cromwell. Much more stable than these new fangled republics.

My diet is what made me well rounded.

They need 3 employees

1 To cancel the recurring pizza delivery order
1 To hit the start button to stop the computer.
1 To turn out the lights

I have heard enough. Feel free to stop digging.

>So, it generates prime numbers and does some math between them. If that is a security product, so is everything else capable of producing that kind of output - it includes both Excel and the C language, as an example.

I didn't know C and Excel had a native X.509 parser and cert management built into the language. I'll run and check my copy and K&R, but I'm pretty sure it's not in there. That's why libraries like openssl exist.

>Define "recently"
In the last two years. Deployed in the main stream in that last year.

>and "greatly"
Gave the option of using local high rate entropy sources to ensure consistency in the random numbers from it's service interface.

OpenSSL is a mess in many ways, but if you ignore the problems the openssl writers solved, you're doomed to recreate them in your own library.

Of course I know about other hardware RNGs. I already pointed to VIAs and the occasional one strapped to an ARM core. I put some of them in some of those chips. Back then I was into iterated hashes, but I've learned the error of my ways and these days it's block ciphers and field arithmetic all the way.

Rumor has is that I may know something about the RNG you just referenced. It may be two years old to you, but it didn't come into existence in 10 minutes. It doesn't really matter. These repeated crypto software failures point to a holier than thou attitude of some crypto software writers that does the public no good. You can't play in this game without accepting that it's easy to be wrong and you'd better have things checked and cross checked by the smartest people you can find and don't get all defensive when you've been found to be wrong. Mark it down to experience and move on. That's how it works. When Theo can't accept that the universe works this way, he automatically loses his security credibility license.

Ahh. Much respect. I have switched to using a CFFA3000 for my apple 2e and have recently turned back to programming 6502 assembler, like I did when I was 10 years old.

I clearly remember the shock of finding SysV has won and all that BSD goodness was not a part of my work day. This was on Suns.

ps -e FFS!
 

>Horrible in what way?

No memory protection. No virtual memory. The switcher. Sad Mac Icon. Things were not perfect. These days a Mac is a robust thing. The tradeoff is that is it a government and corporate portal into your home and life.

In 1991, real computing was done on unix workstations running BSD (Sun 3/60 anyone?).

The PC market was a cess pit. The Macintosh was nice, but the OS was horribly unreliable.

>What was unique with PowerPC was to be cheaper, that's all.

And yet it never was.

Does no one in the federal government have a smartphone? Why are there no pictures of the vials being pulled from dusty refrigerators?

No. Negativity is a normal condition for crypto oriented people.