PRNG on FreeBSD

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, 2006-Oct-05 13:13:51 +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
>>As someone (me) who knows very little on how to effectively compromise a 
>>PRNG, what are the tradeoffs?  Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna?
>
>Yarrow is an older PRNG algorithm, and Fortuna is (as I understand it) 
>generally considered its successor.

Of course, in the crypto world, "newer" and "better" are closer to
antonyms than synonyms.  Looking around on the net, I can't find
anything that looks like an analysis of it.  I respect the authors
but it would be interesting to see the views of someone else.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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