[cabfpub] Pre-Ballot 164 - Certificate Serial Number Entropy

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews jsha at letsencrypt.org
Wed May 4 11:55:35 MST 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Fotis Loukos <fotisl at it.auth.gr> wrote:

> There are hardware devices that use cryptographic hash functions in order
> to unbias the biased input by the RNG. However, a cryptographic hash
> function is not a CSPRNG.
>

Would you agree that those devices are "intended for use in a cryptographic
system?"
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