Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:52:54 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030202205254.GC74654@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200302021955.OAA20742@glatton.cnchost.com> References: <200302021908.h12J8laX050048@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200302021955.OAA20742@glatton.cnchost.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:55:25AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > > RC4 is _utterly_ repeatable, given a particular seed/key. > > May be but it is not the same as the current random(). Also, > I know you will want to change it the next time some one > points out a problem with RC4. Since you keep talking about random(), I must conclude you're knee-jerking, since we're not discussing that function. Please stay on-topic :-) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+PYUmWry0BWjoQKURAgMMAJ9eNYggBWSpDJsxLXNYENYrBr4eYACfb97R sWt50YswEoHAGwSPFCxqyJw= =CA/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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