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Re: Bruce Schneier on IPsec

To: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier on IPsec
From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:37:15 -0500
Cc: Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>, ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
In-Reply-To: "Michael H. Warfield", Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:36:23 EST
Sender: owner-ipsec@lists.tislabs.com

In message <20000124163623.I2165@alcove.wittsend.com>, "Michael H. Warfield" wr
ites:
>On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:39:29PM -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
>> The paper includes source code for at least one attack. It was posted
>> to the linux-ipsec list and is in the archive at:
>> http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/linux-ipsec/html/1999/06/msg00319.html
>(alleged RC4) libraries?  I also presume that this is just a "better"
>random number generator, but I would hate to presume that I could just
arc4random() is the PRNG used in OpenBSD.  Replacing it with random()
should be fine in this case.

Greetings,
 Niels.

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