Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:50:33 -0300 From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: PRNG on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061004105033.b52bb860.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
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Hello, Snooping around Wikipedia, I got curious about if it'd worth the effort going from Yarrow [1] to Fortuna [2] algorithm, as the authors (seems to) claim that the latter is better/more secure. As someone (me) who knows very little on how to effectively compromise a PRNG, what are the tradeoffs? Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna? Regards. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_%28PRNG%29 -- Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}> Powered by FreeBSD "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."
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