cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen arc4random.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jul 22 10:34:54 UTC 2008


In message <200807221031.m6MAVe9I012301 at repoman.freebsd.org>, "Andrey A. Cherno
v" writes:

>  Increase initially dropped bytes from 512 to 768 (768 is also
>  suggested in the Ilya Mironov's article). 768 taken from another
>  research where it treats as default for RC4-drop(768):
>  http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hopwood/crypto/scan/cs.html#RC4-drop

I've always wondered why the dropped number of bytes is constant,
wouldn't it be smarter to drop a constant number, and then pull
out the next byte and drop that many further bytes ?
	

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