[MLB-WIRELESS] /dev/random WEP Keygen webpage

Grant Diffey nevyn-wlan at artificial-stupidity.net
Thu May 8 17:14:35 EST 2003


On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:28:41PM +1000, Ryan Abbenhuys wrote:
> >to put it in perspective if someone offerd a service
> >to generate you a random pin to go with your banking
> >service would you use it?
> >
> I'm using the random PIN generated by my bank for my keycard which was sent
> to me via Australia Post.
> :-\
> 
The channels thorugh which your pin is transmited don't even come close to
the insecurity of the internet. your pin was sent in a package that was 
at least tamper resistant (tho if you tried you could probably open it and
re-seal it.)

What I was talking about is a third party service.

-- 
Grant Diffey aka "nevyn"

President of Computerbank Australia Inc.
http://www.computerbank.org.au/
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