svn commit: r322012 - in stable: 10/contrib/ipfilter 11/contrib/ipfilter

Cy Schubert cy at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 3 14:22:49 UTC 2017


Author: cy
Date: Thu Aug  3 14:22:48 2017
New Revision: 322012
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/322012

Log:
  MFC r321605:
  
  As in r315225, discard 3072 bytes of RC4 bytestream instead of 1024.
  (This implementation of arc4rand(9) is used by the userland ipftest
  utility as it approximates ipfilter kernelspace in userspace.)
  
  PR:		217920
  Submitted by:	codarren at hackers.mu
  Reviewed by:	emaste, cem
  Approved by:	so (implicit, in r315225)
  Differential Revision:	D11747
  Patterned after:	r315225

Modified:
  stable/11/contrib/ipfilter/arc4random.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/11/   (props changed)

Changes in other areas also in this revision:
Modified:
  stable/10/contrib/ipfilter/arc4random.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/10/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/11/contrib/ipfilter/arc4random.c
==============================================================================
--- stable/11/contrib/ipfilter/arc4random.c	Thu Aug  3 14:20:19 2017	(r322011)
+++ stable/11/contrib/ipfilter/arc4random.c	Thu Aug  3 14:22:48 2017	(r322012)
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ arc4_randomstir (void)
 	/*
 	 * Throw away the first N words of output, as suggested in the
 	 * paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4"
-	 * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir.  (N = 256 in our case.)
+	 * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir.  (N = 768 in our case.)
 	 */
-	for (n = 0; n < 256*4; n++)
+	for (n = 0; n < 768*4; n++)
 		arc4_randbyte();
 	MUTEX_EXIT(&arc4_mtx);
 }


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