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Original date posted:2018-04-10 š Original message:>> Note that even with ...
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Original date posted:2018-04-10
š Original message:>> 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/Published at
2023-06-07 18:11:34Event JSON
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Original date posted:2018-04-10\nš Original message:\u003e\u003e Note that even with v1.4, it still does not use high-quality entropy for\n\u003e\u003e Internet Explorer, because getRandomValues is provided under window.msCrypto\n\u003e\u003e for that browser.\n\u003e\n\u003e I don't know for that one, what was the issue?\n\nI simply meant that Internet Explorer implements the Web Cryptography API under\nwindow.msCrypto instead of window.crypto. Thus, unless\nmsCrypto.getRandomValues is used, high-quality entropy will not have been used\nby any of these libraries under Internet Explorer.\n\n--\nJason Davies, https://www.jasondavies.com/",
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