RFC: redesigning random(4)

2011-09-28 Thread Sandy Harris
I have been thinking about how random(4) might be redesigned and I now have enough thoughts to put them on electrons and send them out. This is all first-cut stuff, though I have thought about it some. It needs comment, criticism and revision. A few things I think we absolutely want to keep. At le

Re: RFC: redesigning random(4)

2011-12-11 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sandy Harris wrote: > I have been thinking about how random(4) might be redesigned ... > > ... make the input > pool use Skein (or another SHA-3 candidate) and the output pools a > modified counter-mode AES. I now actually have most of the code for that and a sub