[Cryptography] Is glibc right on randomness

[Bill Cox]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

> > Here is the glibc bug report:
> >
> >   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17252
>
> Seems Santa Florian brought Christmas a couple of weeks early :)
> getrandom() is now in glibc master!
>

Awesome!  Before this thread started, I had not heard that DjB worked with
the Linux folks to provide ChaCha-20 (in 2016) for urandom, or that
getrandom had even been written (in 2014).  I guess now I can stop griping
about the Linux entropy pool.  Kudos to those who made it happen!

Bill
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