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authordelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2017-03-14 06:10:40 +0000
committerdelphij <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2017-03-14 06:10:40 +0000
commit01f2515b04c5ea1eca6a0d15a31abc0f7d6137c4 (patch)
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parente06e586c2f3b8d707fe016b3a038e1148080fa0a (diff)
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MFC r315225:
Discard first 3072 bytes of RC4 keystream, this is a bandaid that allows us to work on switching to a more modern PRNG. Submitted by: Steven Chamberlain <steven pyro eu org> Approved by: so
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/libkern')
-rw-r--r--sys/libkern/arc4random.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/libkern/arc4random.c b/sys/libkern/arc4random.c
index 9de5a84..d230aa2 100644
--- a/sys/libkern/arc4random.c
+++ b/sys/libkern/arc4random.c
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ arc4_randomstir(void)
/*
* Throw away the first N words of output, as suggested in the
* paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4"
- * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir. (N = 256 in our case.)
+ * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir. (N = 768 in our case.)
*
* http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=646557.694759
*/
- for (n = 0; n < 256*4; n++)
+ for (n = 0; n < 768*4; n++)
arc4_randbyte();
mtx_unlock(&arc4_mtx);
}
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