Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module

From: David Wagner
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 16:03:35 EST


bill davidsen wrote:
>I know someone noted that frandom couldn't just replace urandom, but I
>don't recall why.

Because we don't have enough confidence in the cryptographic
security of frandom.
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