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2003 Apr 14
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(OT) rfc1948 question
...ndom not enough random? Was there another reason to `request exact RFC 1948 compliance' by default? I am not just curious about that issue (although I _am_ curious :) ), but I am currnetly trying to understand the risks of trusted_hosts kind of security from rfc1948 point of view. I am not some cryptoanalyst, well to be honest I am totally new in cryptography, but from what I have read arc4 (or RC4 - they supposed to be identical) looks quite good as SPRNG given ARC4_MAXRUNS and ARC4_RESEED_SECONDS values are 16384 and 300s. Can anybody shed some light on this topic or point me to the URL to read. Any...