On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...
Actually thats what Jeroen was referring to - use of arc4random(). It's
still a PRNG :-)
Kris
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