Re: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC

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From: Theo de Raadt
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 5:50 pm

That is completely irrelevant because get_random_bytes() is only used
as the *source material* for a RC4-based PRNG.

WE HAVE THREE LAYERS OF PRNG.

From: Kurt Knochner
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - 6:01 pm

so, you are saying, that the use of nanotime() in arc4_stir() is irrelevant?

That would be a result I can accept, as I already said: It could mean nothing.

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