From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 2: 4:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A290C37B405 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pollux.asml.nl (ns.asml.nl [195.109.200.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F266443F85 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:04:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from nlvdhv01.asml.nl (nlvdhv01 [195.109.200.68]) by pollux.asml.nl (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09125; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from unknown(146.106.1.223) by nlvdhv01.asml.nl via csmap id 22920; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 11:01:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from titan.asml.nl (titan [146.106.1.9]) by creon.asml.nl (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h13A3xH02582; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (frobozz.asml.nl [146.106.12.76]) by titan.asml.nl (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18205; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:51 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3E3DBAC3.14E4ED81@mindspring.com> References: <200302022302.h12N23aX053186@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3E3DBAC3.14E4ED81@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:57:56 +0100 To: Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: rand() is broken Cc: Mark Murray , "Andrey A. Chernov" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:41 PM -0800 2003/02/02, Terry Lambert wrote: > Donald Knuth seemed to like them well enough to publish the > algorithm, as part of his discussion on randomness. He *didn't* > publish RC4, in that same discussion. RC stands for Ron's Code. This stuff came after the work that Diffie Hellman did, for which the patent expired a little while ago. Did RC4 even exist at the time that Don published that book? -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message