In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "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...
Warner
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