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Re: [Libevent-users] bug? arc4_seed_proc_sys_kernel_random_uuid() does not set arc4_seeded_ok on success



On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Joseph Spadavecchia
<joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:28:41 -0400, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
>> [*] (Oh hey look what I did in my spare time the other month:
>> https://github.com/nmathewson/libottery .  But see all the caveats in
>> the README.)
>
> Nice stuff.  I'll have a read through it sometime (it's a nice way to get
> familiar with ChaCha too).  Could this be a future (non-default) option for
> evutil_secure_rng?

I'd like to make it the only option at some point in the future once
there's sufficient confidence in the code.  I'm not sure I want to
have two PRNGs ship with libevent, one of which is known to have a
poor cipher (RC4), and one if which has a not-too-trusted
implementation.  Let's get one good one that we can have confidence
in, and just ship that.

yrs,
-- 
Nick
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