On 2019-04-05 22:50, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Read the discussion link about ARC4. http://www.pcg-random.org/
As a general-purpose PRNG, it is rather slow, and it is also slow by
the standards of modern cryptographic PRNGs and is also considered too
weak to use for cryptographic purposes. It is, however, of historical
interest and can be useful in testing to see how sensitive a algorithms
are to PRNG speed.
Using ARC4 replaces a one legacy one with another.
Yes, I agree.
After looking at the code, I learned that - seemingly - most
arc4random() implementations aren't using ARC4, but ChaCha.
Would it be unfortunate from a export control point of view to include
cipher-based random generators in DPDK?
