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2017 and FreeBSD is still using RC4 in arc4random | Dark Hacker News

2017 and FreeBSD is still using RC4 in arc4random(svnweb.freebsd.org)

1 points by blorgle 9 years ago | 1 comment

blorgle 9 years ago |

Even though there were two patches submitted in 2013 and 2014 to switch to ChaCha:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-Octobe...

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-May...

:(