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The "use ASLR for random seed" trick in there is pretty cute, but I noticed it will just silently not work in non-ASLR settings, and in particular under Wasm.

• sedatk 4y ago
  Is there any other way to generate entropy without an OS dependency?
  • mhh__ 4y ago
    timestamp counter?
    • sedatk 4y ago
      Only works on x86.
      • mhh__ 4y ago
        As far as entropy generation goes other architectures have equivalents, albeit a few more instructions than just rdtsc
• spb 4y ago
  Recent versions of Lua use this trick as well.
• IshKebab 4y ago
  Not the end of the world though surely.