[Cryptography] OpenSSL CSPRNG work

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Mon Jul 3 01:16:17 EDT 2017


> On Jul 2, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Mark Steward <marksteward at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think Watson Ladd's point will be missed so to call it out again: in the context of this discussion, arc4random is a placeholder for ChaCha20 or newer replacement, as it is in OpenBSD 5.5+. It doesn't mean RC4.

I'm sorry.

arc4random(3) is a function in stdlib.h. Look at the man pages. 

If you mean some suitable PRF/PRP to be named later, say so.

	Jon


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