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Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?
by anologwintermut 12y ago
Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?
- tedunangst 12y agoLibc arc4random still uses rc4. The kernel code is actually kind of tangly. I think it still uses rc4 for explicit arc4random calls, but I'm not certain exactly what comes out of /dev/random.
- ygra 12y ago/dev/random on FreeBSD uses Yarrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm