Re: Generating Entropy.

2009-04-08 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
0x00 wrote, On 2009-04-08 07:45: > I have this so far, which seem to produce a good set of random bytes: > > buffer = ''; > var PRNG = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/security/random-generator; > 1']; > var rg = PRNG.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIRandomGenerator); > randomBytes = rg.gen

Re: The element

2009-04-08 Thread Anders Rundgren
Gervase Markham wrote: >On 07/04/09 15:38, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: >> No, the keygen tag is just too bad to be updated to something really >> useful. >Then you need to persuade Hixie not to standardize it, otherwise people >will be using it for a long time :-) It doesn't really matter if ge

Re: The element

2009-04-08 Thread Gervase Markham
On 07/04/09 15:38, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: No, the keygen tag is just too bad to be updated to something really useful. Then you need to persuade Hixie not to standardize it, otherwise people will be using it for a long time :-) Gerv -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.

Re: Generating Entropy.

2009-04-08 Thread 0x000000
I have this so far, which seem to produce a good set of random bytes: buffer = ''; var PRNG = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/security/random-generator; 1']; var rg = PRNG.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIRandomGenerator); randomBytes = rg.generateRandomBytes (32, buffer); -- dev-tech-cryp

Generating Entropy.

2009-04-08 Thread 0x000000
I thought it was better to post it here, instead of the general dev.extensions. Hi all, I have a question regarding generating sufficient entropy using XPCOM objects, for use inside extensions. First off is this possible at all? like using: ["@mozilla.org/security/ entropy;1"] or is there any ot