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Security systems are chains with many links--one weak link is too many.

A cryptosystem with a weak random number generator can not be any stronger than that fl

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Peter Coffees Dirty Dozen IT Embarrassments 1982: Trans-Siberian Pipeline explosion proves how hard hackers can hit 1988: USS Vincennes shoots down civilian airliner 1990: AT 1994: Pentium FDIV bug makes floating-point division a mainstream joke 1995: Syncronys SoftRAM makes people see what they want to see 1996: Kerberos random number generator finally gets random 1998: USS Yorktown is disabled by software failures 1999: Mars Climate Orbiter crashes on metric/English mismatch 1999: Melissa Worm teaches crucial lessons -- or does it? 2005: FBI Virtual Case File project is abandoned 2005: ChoicePoint admits to unwise data disclosures 2005: Sony rootkit idiocy makes DRM nightmare real

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