2010/12/22 Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>:
>> 2010/12/21 Kurt Knochner <cdowl...@googlemail.com>:
>> > instead of just prepending it. MD5 and the like does not seem to be
>> > necessary, as buf will allways contain some good random data.
>>
>> I wanted to say: get_random_bytes() will allways return enough good
>> random values.
>
> That is completely irrelevant because get_random_bytes() is only used
> as the *source material* for a RC4-based PRNG.
>
> WE HAVE THREE LAYERS OF PRNG.

so, you are saying, that the use of nanotime() in arc4_stir() is irrelevant?

That would be a result I can accept, as I already said: It could mean nothing.

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