Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:56:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRNG on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061010055614.GA90327@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20061006091827.GA941@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20061004105033.b52bb860.rnsanchez@wait4.org> <20061005131248.R46123@fledge.watson.org> <20061006091827.GA941@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 2006-10-06 19:18, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: >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 >>> PRNG, what are the tradeoffs? Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna? >> >> Yarrow is an older PRNG algorithm, and Fortuna is (as I understand it) >> generally considered its successor. > > Of course, in the crypto world, "newer" and "better" are closer to > antonyms than synonyms. Heh. Now *this* is a fortune candidate, if I can recognize one :)
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