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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 01:16, Thomas Beckett wrote:

>          Quite reasonable, I'm sure.  I see that I misread Matooz'z 
> posting, and it is just the key-signing that will be reprised.  You should 
> still show up for the foot massage, if nothing else.  In the meantime, I'll 
> go read your TriLUG presentation (which, interestingly, can only be read 
> with IE).

What are you trying to view it in?  I can view it perfectly using
both Mozilla and Konqueror under Mandrake Linux 8.2.  Yes, it was
created with powerpoint, but it was run on linux using Crossover
Office. :-)

>          One question for starters:  to generate a new key, GPG needs a 
> string of random numbers, right?  Can a Wintel machine generate a reliably 
> random number?

Generally what is done is you ask the user to do some random things:
type on the keyboard, move the mouse, do a disk file search, download
a large file from the network.  I've never used gpg on windows,
but I know on Linux it can get randomness from all that.  I would
assume it would be similar under windows.

Tanner
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