Talk:Fortuna (PRNG)

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I don't understand the flaw about repeated blocks created in counter mode. (Well sure, there will be repeated blocks after 2^128 blocks, but that's a silly huge number.)18.209.1.147 08:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

That's because it's wrong. The original version of the article said "repeated blocks would never be generated" or something along those lines; someone changed it to "would be generated", I fixed it, and later on someone broke it again. I'm about to clarify that bit of the article in the hope of making it less likely that well-intentioned people will break it. Gareth McCaughan 17:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)