I have been playing around with ezPyCrypto. I generated and printed a
key with
import ezPyCrypto
k = ezPyCrypto.key(2048)
print k.exportKey()
I noticed there were a lot of N's and M's, too many to occur by chance
s=k.exportKeyPrivate() s.count('N')/float(len(s)) 0.09788189987163029 s.count('M')/float(len(s))
0.11
I quit python and restarted it and generated a new key and found the
same thing. Ditto when I exported the private key. I also found the
keys generated in the two sessions to be quite similar (35% characters
at a given position identical).
What's going on? Is it abnormal for so many of the characters in the
exported string to be the same? The machine I am running on is a
server that rarely has anyone logged in directly. Is this a problem
with not enough randomness in /dev/random?
Thanks for any suggestions,
John Hunter
ezPyCrypto-0.1.1
pycrypto-1.9a6
python2.2
mother:/var/tmp/ezPyCrypto-0.1.1> uname -a
Linux mother.paradise.lost 2.4.9 #7 Fri Oct 12 15:20:49 CDT 2001 i686
unknown