[Cryptography] Is Ron right on randomness

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 01:02:19 EST 2016


On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 2:02 PM, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:
> It should read from /dev/urandom [1].
>
> That covers all Mac OSX, all Linux and all Android, which makes for the
> majority of devices.
>
> Left over is Microsoft, iOS and misc?  Push them to add a file device?

People seem to be throwing random maj / min -ority and
desktop / mobile -device terms. Now for one non-misc OS...

FreeBSD provides random and urandom.

https://www.freebsd.org/
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+11.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+11.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
Further reference install...
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/announce.html
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/

At least one outdated thread here...
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2014-July/thread.html
Somewhat offtopic...
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+11.0-RELEASE+and+Ports


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