Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 19:47:12 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <32212.1044211632@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:36:02 GMT." <200302021836.h12Ia2aX049696@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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In message <200302021836.h12Ia2aX049696@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr ites: >We have most of this, and RC4 can deliver. RC4's "licence" is >fine. Call it "ArCFour" and there is no problem. The code is >small, fast and repeatable, and meets conditions 1-4 above. There are some concerns about RC4's strength and predictability. In cases were we just want trivial "randomness", this doesn't matter, but when we start to seed it with /dev/random to get good randomness we to be more careful. Maybe we should spend an AES on it, just in case ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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