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They got fixed last month. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/random.7.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/random.7.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pag
by mkj 10y ago
They got fixed last month.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/random.7.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/random.7.html
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211
- marcosdumay 10y agoFinally! It would be even better if there was some special file with the same semantics of getrandom, so the advise could be simply "use this file, or the getrandom syscal, whatever is easier". The way it is now, no special file is foolproof.
- schoen 10y agoWow, those are big changes! I could see them having a big effect because the man page is usually the ultimate source of people's intuition that /dev/random is much safer/more appropriate for key generation. If you can just say "actually the man page no longer says that", that's pretty significant.