Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:15:00 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PRNG on FreeBSD Message-ID: <eg0q6b$enc$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20061004105033.b52bb860.rnsanchez@wait4.org> References: <20061004105033.b52bb860.rnsanchez@wait4.org>
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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > Snooping around Wikipedia, I got curious about if it'd worth the effort going > from Yarrow [1] to Fortuna [2] algorithm, as the authors (seems to) claim that > the latter is better/more secure. > > As someone (me) who knows very little on how to effectively compromise a > PRNG, what are the tradeoffs? Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna? Maybe you'll want to ask this question on sci.crypt newsgroup (usenet). (the standard caveat: Wikipedia entries are not always correct)
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