PRNG on FreeBSD

[Ivan Voras]

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
> 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?

Maybe you'll want to ask this question on sci.crypt newsgroup (usenet).
(the standard caveat: Wikipedia entries are not always correct)