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| Started by | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| First post | 2018-11-21 17:43 -0500 |
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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-11-21 17:43 -0500
| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| Date | 2018-11-21 17:43 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator |
| Message-ID | <mailman.4412.1542840226.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> |
On 11/21/18 3:07 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > '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? What is your application that you need something more complicated than the existing PRNG? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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