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it has been fixed to those choices.
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Fortuna is more secure than Yarrow in the sense that attackers who learn parts of the entropy being
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added to the PRNG learn far less about the state than that of Yarrow. Without getting into to many
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added to the PRNG learn far less about the state than that of Yarrow. Without getting into too many
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details Fortuna has the ability to recover from state determination attacks where the attacker starts
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to learn information from the PRNGs output about the internal state. Yarrow on the other hand, cannot
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recover from that problem until new entropy is added to the pool and put to use through the ready() function.
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For detailed information on how the algorithm works and what you have to do to maintain the secure state
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get a copy of the book\footnote{Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, Practical Cryptography. ISBN 0-471-22357-3.} or
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read the paper online\footnote{\url{https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/fortuna.pdf} [Accessed on 7th Dec. 2017]}.
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\subsubsection{RC4}
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RC4 is an old stream cipher that can also double duty as a PRNG in a pinch. You key RC4 by

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