On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:21:31PM +0000, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: > > I?ve been watching this long stream of messages flying by, and I?m a bit > concerned about the approach. > > As I understand it, there is a strong RNG, based on RC4 (?ARC4?) in the > kernel today.
No. There is a "strong" RNG, based on the NIST SP800-90 CTR_DRBG with AES128 as the block transform. There is also a "fast" RNG, based on RC4. We are discussing the replacement of the "fast" RNG. Thor