On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 19:47:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Murray wr > ites: > > >We have most of this, and RC4 can deliver. RC4's "licence" is > >fine. Call it "ArCFour" and there is no problem. The code is > >small, fast and repeatable, and meets conditions 1-4 above. > > There are some concerns about RC4's strength and predictability.
Yes. That why I say we need to run some tests to compare RC4 distribution and other vital parameters with our current variant. The worst case will be if we replace good PRNG with bad. F.e. Knuth variant I already mention already proven as better than what we currently have, so don't have such problem as RC4-based PRNG probably have. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
