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To: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen arc4random.c 
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In message <200807221239.57653.max@love2party.net>, Max Laier writes:
>On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:34:51 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <200807221031.m6MAVe9I012301@repoman.freebsd.org>, "Andrey
>> A. Cherno
>>
>> v" writes:
>> >  Increase initially dropped bytes from 512 to 768 (768 is also
>> >  suggested in the Ilya Mironov's article). 768 taken from another
>> >  research where it treats as default for RC4-drop(768):
>> >  http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hopwood/crypto/scan/cs.html#RC4-drop
>>
>> I've always wondered why the dropped number of bytes is constant,
>> wouldn't it be smarter to drop a constant number, and then pull
>> out the next byte and drop that many further bytes ?
>
>If you can observe the runtime that might give you a very good idea what 
>that byte was ... not sure if that is of relevance, but just a thought.

Absolutely true but that would still be better than a fixed number
wouldn't it ?

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