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36663666it has been fixed to those choices.
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36683668Fortuna is more secure than Yarrow in the sense that attackers who learn parts of the entropy being
3669- added to the PRNG learn far less about the state than that of Yarrow. Without getting into to many
3669+ added to the PRNG learn far less about the state than that of Yarrow. Without getting into too many
36703670details Fortuna has the ability to recover from state determination attacks where the attacker starts
36713671to learn information from the PRNGs output about the internal state. Yarrow on the other hand, cannot
36723672recover from that problem until new entropy is added to the pool and put to use through the ready() function.
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3674+ For detailed information on how the algorithm works and what you have to do to maintain the secure state
3675+ get a copy of the book\footnote {Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, Practical Cryptography. ISBN 0-471-22357-3.} or
3676+ read the paper online\footnote {\url {https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/fortuna.pdf} [Accessed on 7th Dec. 2017]}.
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36743678\subsubsection {RC4 }
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36763680RC4 is an old stream cipher that can also double duty as a PRNG in a pinch. You key RC4 by
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