On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > - rename csprng to arc4random
I was watching these commits come in and it made me a bit curious. At some point, arc4random, which used to use rc4's generator, was replaced with chacha's. Then the notion of a cryptographically secure psuedorandom number generator (csprng) was abstracted, and calls were wrapped in the csprng functions. That way, it seemed to me, chacha could be replaced out with another generator if desired. But then, with these commits, it seems like csprng was renamed back to arc4random, but still uses chacha internally? I'm a bit curious what the story behind this is. -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
