Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:18:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006181917510.20132-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200006190201.UAA52489@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...
Actually thats what Jeroen was referring to - use of arc4random(). It's
still a PRNG :-)
Kris
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