[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: OpenSSL and random

[Mark Steward]

On 30 Nov 2016 08:57, "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Linux, my recommendation is to use getrandom(2) on Linux; you'll
>> have to use syscall to access it because glibc developers are being,
>> well.... very glibc.  If it doesn't exist, fall back to /dev/urandom.
>
>
> Ugh...  You do realize that getrandom simply reads from /dev/random,
right?
>
> The noise on these threads is not just aggravating, but suspicious...
>

Before you hit reply again, go read
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c6e9d6f3
.

Mark
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