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> it looks like it's just using Keccak as a stream cipher of sorts (but seeding it from /dev/urandom). That's pretty ok, and if we don't trust stream ciphers to
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
> it looks like it's just using Keccak as a stream cipher of sorts (but seeding it from /dev/urandom). That's pretty ok, and if we don't trust stream ciphers to produce pseudorandom numbers we have much bigger issues.
I very strongly disagree with userspace RNGs being used instead of the kernel's CSPRNG being "pretty ok".
Don't "seed a userspace RNG from urandom". Just use urandom.
- plasticmachine 10y agoSure, and I agree with you in principle. Doesn't change the fact that what you've highlighted as some indication of Monero's inferiority lives in start contrast with the ZCash amateurs.
- plasticmachine 10y ago*stark