Re: cprng_fast implementation benchmarks

Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:56:28 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.crypto,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:21:31PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> I?ve been watching this long stream of messages flying by, and I?m a bit concerned about the approach.
> 
> As I understand it, there is a strong RNG, based on RC4 (?ARC4?) in the kernel today.

No.  There is a "strong" RNG, based on the NIST SP800-90 CTR_DRBG with AES128
as the block transform.

There is also a "fast" RNG, based on RC4.

We are discussing the replacement of the "fast" RNG.

Thor