On 10 June 2013 11:14, Nick Mathewson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Joseph Spadavecchia > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:28:41 -0400, Nick Mathewson <[email protected]> > [...] > >> [*] (Oh hey look what I did in my spare time the other month: > >> https://github.com/nmathewson/libottery . But see all the caveats in > >> the README.) > > > > Nice stuff. I'll have a read through it sometime (it's a nice way to get > > familiar with ChaCha too). Could this be a future (non-default) option > for > > evutil_secure_rng? > > I'd like to make it the only option at some point in the future once > there's sufficient confidence in the code. I'm not sure I want to > have two PRNGs ship with libevent, one of which is known to have a > poor cipher (RC4), and one if which has a not-too-trusted > implementation. Let's get one good one that we can have confidence > in, and just ship that. > > yrs, > -- > Nick > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. >
libsodium <https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium> which is based on NaCl < http://nacl.cr.yp.to/> ships a Salsa20 based PRNG which might be of interest here. Jeroen
