From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 5 10:49:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE0137B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3C043FAF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h15IncOs010010; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:49:38 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h15InbTW010007; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:49:38 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:49:37 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken In-Reply-To: <20030202182009.GA66318@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: <20030205204853.H43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 17:30:48 +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > Why not? Arc4 is a) deterministic and b) good for all bits. > > If you mean arc4random() function - not, because it use true randomness, > if you mean RC4 algorithm, probably yes, but we should compare its > distribution with our current variant and be sure that speed is > acceptable. What form RC4 distribution have? > arc4 is the "non-encumbered" name for rc4 that is not derived from RSA code > -- > Andrey A. Chernov > http://ache.pp.ru/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message