PRNG on FreeBSD

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-10-06 19:18, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>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.

Heh.  Now *this* is a fortune candidate, if I can recognize one :)