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$RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

Started byOle Tange <ole@tange.dk>
First post2018-11-21 21:07 +0100
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  $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> - 2018-11-21 21:07 +0100

#14839 — $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

FromOle Tange <ole@tange.dk>
Date2018-11-21 21:07 +0100
Subject$RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
Message-ID<mailman.4407.1542835382.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org>
'brand' in variables.c is comparable in size to ChaCha20 and ChaCha20
is not completely broken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20

Could we please replace 'brand' with ChaCha20?


/Ole

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