Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:07:13 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ball starts rolling Message-ID: <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <199911270349.UAA47680@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 08:49:44PM -0700 References: <19991126224819.A18496@november.jaded.net> <199911270349.UAA47680@harmony.village.org>
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| : To get the ball rolling, I've put online my patch to randomize the order which
| : PIDs follow. If all goes well, I expect to commit this sometime over the
| : weekend, followed by another commit the following week to replace the PRNG
| : with something a little better than random().
|
| What's wrong with the original cryptographically strong randomizer in
| OpenSBD?
Absolutely nothing. Last I checked, they used RC4, which is fairly fast and
efficient for the kernel. However, I'm still debating whether or not it's
actually _needed_. IMHO, OpenBSD takes somethings beyond the point of
paranoid overkill, but in this secnario I don't think it would hurt either way.
*shrug*
--
Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
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