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From: Jason Davies <jason@jasondavies.com>
To: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] KETAMINE: Multiple vulnerabilities in SecureRandom(), numerous cryptocurrency products affected.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:32:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E0F193EA-9479-4E07-8B91-B77D33FB0CBE@jasondavies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33a9f602-6185-cac5-e457-e5a9af047dbc@gmail.com>

>> Note that even with v1.4, it still does not use high-quality entropy for
>> Internet Explorer, because getRandomValues is provided under window.msCrypto
>> for that browser.
>
> I don't know for that one, what was the issue?

I simply meant that Internet Explorer implements the Web Cryptography API under
window.msCrypto instead of window.crypto.  Thus, unless
msCrypto.getRandomValues is used, high-quality entropy will not have been used
by any of these libraries under Internet Explorer.

--
Jason Davies, https://www.jasondavies.com/



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-10 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-06 19:53 [bitcoin-dev] KETAMINE: Multiple vulnerabilities in SecureRandom(), numerous cryptocurrency products affected ketamine
2018-04-06 20:51 ` Matias Alejo Garcia
2018-04-09 21:11   ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2018-04-09 21:17     ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2018-04-09 23:39       ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2018-04-10  8:51         ` Jason Davies
2018-04-10 13:15           ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-04-10 13:32             ` Jason Davies [this message]
2018-04-10 13:50               ` Aymeric Vitte
2018-04-10  0:42     ` Jason Davies

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