On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Geoff Rehmet wrote:
> > I'd expect Yarrow to be (perhaps quite a bit) slower than our existing
> > PRNG - it's a more conservative design and uses primitives
> > like SHA-1 (for
> > yarrow-160). I don't know how much of an impact this would be for
> > network performance.
>
> If it is only used to generate a secret every 5 minutes, that should not
> be a problem.
Hrm. RFC 1948 seems to warn against changing the secret while "live". It's
not immediately obvious to me why this is so.
Kris
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