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anologwintermut
4132 days ago
Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?
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tedunangst
4132 days ago
Libc 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.
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ygra
4132 days ago
/dev/random on FreeBSD uses Yarrow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm
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