Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:01:54 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <200006190201.UAA52489@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:09:23 EDT." <394124C3.221E61BC@vangelderen.org> References: <394124C3.221E61BC@vangelderen.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006072338550.73192-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <200006081724.TAA00705@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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In message <394124C3.221E61BC@vangelderen.org> "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" writes: : Pseudo random numbers are so cheap (or they should be) that you : just don't want to try and 'optimize' here. It is much better to : be conservative and use a good PRNG until it *proves* to be very : problematic. I disagree with this strongly. PRNG have proven time and time again to weaken security due to their less than random nature. It is my judgement that going down this path would be very bad, especially when cryptographically strong random number generators exist and are part of the base FreeBSD system. We should just use those... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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