Re: PRNG on FreeBSD

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
Hello,

Snooping around Wikipedia, I got curious about if it'd worth the effort going
from Yarrow [1] to Fortuna [2] algorithm, as the authors (seems to) claim that
the latter is better/more secure.

As someone (me) who knows very little on how to effectively compromise a
PRNG, what are the tradeoffs? Yarrow is simpler/faster than Fortuna?

Maybe you'll want to ask this question on sci.crypt newsgroup (usenet).
(the standard caveat: Wikipedia entries are not always correct)


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