Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 23:14:03 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: The ball starts rolling Message-ID: <19991126231403.D18496@november.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net>; from Dan Moschuk on Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 11:07:13PM -0500 References: <19991126224819.A18496@november.jaded.net> <199911270349.UAA47680@harmony.village.org> <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net>
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| | 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*
Oh, cool. After further inspection, arc4random() is a library function, not
specific to the OpenBSD kernel. In that case, there is really no valid reason
why you can't use either.
--
Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org)
"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
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