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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.28 2012/07/26 18:39:48 naddy Exp $ |
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.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> |
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.\" All rights reserved. |
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.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 26 2012 $ |
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.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 |
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The S-Boxes can be in about (2**1700) states. |
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.Fn arc4random |
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fits into a middle ground not covered by other subsystems such as |
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the strong, slow, and resource expensive random |
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devices described in |
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.Xr random 4 |
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versus the fast but poor quality interfaces described in |
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provides a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator, |
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as opposed to the fast but poor quality interfaces described in |
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.Xr rand 3 , |
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.Xr random 3 , |
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and |
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