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-rw-r--r--libc/stdlib/arc4random.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libc/stdlib/arc4random.c b/libc/stdlib/arc4random.c
index 55ea7e218..b83fe32a6 100644
--- a/libc/stdlib/arc4random.c
+++ b/libc/stdlib/arc4random.c
@@ -131,11 +131,11 @@ arc4_stir(struct arc4_stream *as)
/*
* Throw away the first N words of output, as suggested in the
* paper "Weaknesses in the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4"
- * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir.
- * http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~itsik/RC4/Papers/Rc4_ksa.ps
- * N = 256 in our case.
+ * by Fluher, Mantin, and Shamir. N = 1024 is based on
+ * suggestions in the paper "(Not So) Random Shuffles of RC4"
+ * by Ilya Mironov.
*/
- for (n = 0; n < 256 * 4; n++)
+ for (n = 0; n < 1024; n++)
arc4_getbyte(as);
}