Skip to main content
Information Security

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

4
  • How would one know if the random number generator fails? Commented Apr 30, 2020 at 2:05
  • 2
    That in general is a very difficult problem. There are loads of ways a random number generator can look good in testing but end up creating duplicate sequences in production. Commented Apr 30, 2020 at 2:17
  • 1
    and duplicate "random" number sequences can lead to duplicate nonces which are the Achilles heel of basic DSA implementations. Commented Apr 30, 2020 at 2:18
  • 3
    so sometimes the first you know about a rng failure is when someone finds singatures with duplicate nonces in the wild and recovers the private key........ Commented Apr 30, 2020 at 2:33