From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 10:20:14 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 2214E37B406; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:20:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7899A43FA7; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h12IK9d6066357; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:20:09 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h12IK9e9066356; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:20:09 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:20:09 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Mark Murray Cc: Doug Barton , Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <20030202182009.GA66318@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030202124258.GA63153@nagual.pp.ru> <200302021730.h12HUmaX048964@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302021730.h12HUmaX048964@grimreaper.grondar.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 17:30:48 +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > Why not? Arc4 is a) deterministic and b) good for all bits. If you mean arc4random() function - not, because it use true randomness, if you mean RC4 algorithm, probably yes, but we should compare its distribution with our current variant and be sure that speed is acceptable. What form RC4 distribution have? -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message