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It does use ChaCha20, and the implementation will use something else in another 20 years most likely. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/mgp
by grogers 12y ago
It does use ChaCha20, and the implementation will use something else in another 20 years most likely.
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/mgp00038.html http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/mgp000...
- carey 12y agoServes me right for not reading through all the slides. I would argue that it's one of the more misleading function names out there, though.
- justincormack 12y agoYes, it is misleading, it used to use rc4. Posix are proposing to standardise it under a new generic name, so it is unlikely to get changed until this happens.