arc4random weakness

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Mar 19 14:44:00 UTC 2017


Andrey Chernov <ache at freebsd.org> writes:
> Theo kindly explained that zeroing whole page instead of single variable
> suits to his newest arc4random better, since clears two structs at once
> (including ChaCha state), making some form of backward secrecy.

Yes, avoiding leaking key material to child processes would be useful
for more than just arc4random.

DES
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