[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 26972] predictable random number generator used in web browsers

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26972


Sam Weinig <sam at webkit.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Sam Weinig <sam at webkit.org>  2009-07-04 21:24:27 PDT ---
This is only a problem on Windows at the moment, where we found the existing
cryptographically secure PRNG to be a hefty performance regression on some
tests (I believe it was the JS iBench test).  Mac OS uses arc4random for all
random numbers, which I believe is suitable, and is noted in the paper.  I
think we should probably just include arc4random in the tree and call it a day.

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