In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29

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4 Replies to “In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29”

  1. Anon says:

    Will DragonFly be changing its arc4random algorithm to ChaCha20 as well?

  2. NoobCrusher says:

    @Anon

    you did some research, right?

    https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/

  3. Anon says:

    @NoobCrusher

    If DragonFly replaced RC4 with ChaCha20 in arc4random, why does a comment in a commit from last month still talk about shuffling RC4 in arc4random?

    https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/d8c85757e795ea753bd0625eb344c8220e7a048e..32cfd90abb8f7f3ac599de95e6da27afe5b1c771:/lib/libc/gen/arc4random.c

  4. AnonToo says:

    @Anon
    when you look at gitweb you’ll see that Dragonfly is using IBAA or Fortuna (see 4.0 releasenotes) for a very long time now to generate randomness. Also there’s nothing to replace in arc4random (the libc function) because it’s using /dev/random (which in turn comes from IBAA or Fortuna…)

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