[openssl-dev] Work on a new RNG for OpenSSL

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:58:21AM -0700, John Denker via openssl-dev wrote:
> In the context of:
> 
> >> If you mean for something to be hard for the attacker to guess,
> >> the word "adamance" can be used.
> 
> On 06/26/2017 08:32 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> 
> > All my attempts to look up a definition of this word came up with a noun for for adamant.
> 
> The word "adamance", meaning hardness (as in hard to guess),
> was coined for this purpose.
> 
> The allusion to "adamance", meaning hardness (as in rheologically
> hard), is not a coincidence.
> 
> Can anybody suggest a better term?

unpredictable?


Kurt