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.