ARC4 algorithm

Fact: The ARC4 algorithm is multiply and badly broken. So why is it still being used in OpenBSD and FreeBSD ?

Here are two URLs which have free source code for CSPRNGs which are vastly superior to ARC4:

http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaac.html http://wizardsworks.org/~robin/leopard.html

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Thanks,
Robin. Received on Tue Mar 11 18:59:37 2003