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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
