Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:18:27 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRNG on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061006091827.GA941@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20061005131248.R46123@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061004105033.b52bb860.rnsanchez@wait4.org> <20061005131248.R46123@fledge.watson.org>
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--C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-Oct-05 13:13:51 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: >On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: >>As someone (me) who knows very little on how to effectively compromise a= =20 >>PRNG, what are the tradeoffs? Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna? > >Yarrow is an older PRNG algorithm, and Fortuna is (as I understand it)=20 >generally considered its successor. Of course, in the crypto world, "newer" and "better" are closer to antonyms than synonyms. Looking around on the net, I can't find anything that looks like an analysis of it. I respect the authors but it would be interesting to see the views of someone else. --=20 Peter Jeremy --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFJh9j/opHv/APuIcRAqVGAKC7LWS974VS9pEQaIl9lLLqUQiP9QCgtAtW GcScuG2C2WZRNZ+0Br++jSc= =k+gv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--
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