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Re: Check out my awesome site for generating secure OfflineAddress.com
by
canton
on 20/01/2014, 20:15:43 UTC
If RNG is compromised users will still be secure because all random date is user-provided.

Mike, this is the crux of the misunderstanding as I see it. If the HTML is compromised because of a MITM attack or because the hosting space is hacked, then the user-provided input will simply be ignored, or fed into a predictive number generator. Users will not be secure.

Discouraging users from using loaded HTML doesn't make sense to me - there is no purpose in having website saying you shouldn't use it.

There is every reason for saying that you shouldn't use HTML loaded from a live website. Telling users they will be safe if they turn off their Internet connection after loading the HTML is misleading, because it discounts the possibility of the HTML being tampered with -- which is a helluvalot more likely than the operating system RNG being flawed or someone finding a predictive pattern to the output from crypto.getRandomValues().