Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:16:44 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/strfile strfile.c Message-ID: <86myjnerqr.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20080808063208.GA51624@nagual.pp.ru> (Andrey Chernov's message of "Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:32:08 %2B0400") References: <489B797F.7020101@FreeBSD.org> <20080807230532.GA42775@nagual.pp.ru> <489B81AC.8090508@FreeBSD.org> <20080808.002150.-1037138460.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080808063208.GA51624@nagual.pp.ru>
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Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes: > M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > > This does beg the question why we need cryptographically secure > > randomness for fortune, however... > 1) PRNG is not crypto. Stop spewing nonsense. PRNG and crypto are inseparable. In addition, as you very well know, this PRNG is actually the keystream generator for the RC4 stream cipher. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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