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Since the article doesn't want a userspace CSPRNG (which is probably a good idea, even though the Linux PRNG design is embarrassingly bad), better to just read
by wtbob 10y ago
Since the article doesn't want a userspace CSPRNG (which is probably a good idea, even though the Linux PRNG design is embarrassingly bad), better to just read from /dev/urandom or make the appropriate syscall.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoIn balance, Linux 4.8 will bring some much-needed improvements to Linux's urandom implementation. But they still maintain a "meaningful" distinction between random and urandom, which is the most frustrating design smell.
- zeveb 10y agoAnd to think, if Ted Ts'o had understood PRNGs at the time, we could have had a better PRNG a dozen years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/ https://lwn.net/Articles/103653/ It's so sad.