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

[Max Laier]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:34:51 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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 ?

If you can observe the runtime that might give you a very good idea what 
that byte was ... not sure if that is of relevance, but just a thought.

-- 
/"\  Best regards,                      | mlaier at freebsd.org
\ /  Max Laier                          | ICQ #67774661
 X   http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/  | mlaier at EFnet
/ \  ASCII Ribbon Campaign              | Against HTML Mail and News