"Why does ntpkeygen pass a low entropy ignored seed into SystemRandom?""

Mark Atwood fallenpegasus at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 03:53:02 UTC 2017


Hi!

My friend Greg Rubin, who does security work for Amazon, took at quick look
at NTPsec 0.9.6, and asks the following queston:

"Why does ntpkeygen pass a low entropy ignored seed into SystemRandom? It's
ignored, so it doesn't matter, but it's the type of error which concerns
me."

..m
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