Can you please stop wasting time asking questions before you bother to read about what you are asking?
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Marsh Ray <[email protected]>wrote: > How is this different, except for perhaps the intermediate arc4 cipher. > What does that add, other than crappiness? (RC4 is known to be > distinguishable from a good random source.) > Oh good grief. Yes, ARC4 is being used to stretch a random source. Feel free to hunt for the distinguisher in the OpenBSD multi-consumer model. There's a good paper in there. If you can show a distinguisher (even without reseedings) with an equivalent number of consumers randomly pulling data from the stream, then you might be able to tell us how long we should go between reseeding. I would be (very?) surprised if you have time to see a bias under the current model (multi-consumer, rapid reseeding), though that doesn't mean it isn't possible. The problem is you are asking boneheaded questions without taking the time to understand what you are asking about. You are all noise, and no signal. -kj
