Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:42:09 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rand() is broken Message-ID: <3E3EA9F1.D6A84BB1@mindspring.com> References: <200302022302.h12N23aX053186@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3E3DBAC3.14E4ED81@mindspring.com> <a05200f08ba63eb8bae4f@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > 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? Not the original edition, but yes, for the revised edition, which is only a couple of years old, and, in fact, includes some new algorithms, based on the fact that Fermat's last Theorem has been proved, proving the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture as a side effect, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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