On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:13:25AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	arc4random(9) is stirred by rnd(4) number source.  so it is not just
 > 	another pseudorandom number mechanism, it fills the hole between
 > 	/dev/random and truely-crappy random().

One of the points of arc4random() is that it is faster.  rnd_extract_data()
performs a hash function each time it is called.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>