PRNG on FreeBSD

[Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez]

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

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez     <rnsanchez@{gmail.com,wait4.org}>
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