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Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024)
- Terretta 7mo agoExcellent dive: methodically clear, converging into lovely "ok, I got it" diagram, then applied use case examples. Two year old typo: In another bit of intriguing similarity, Common Crypto makes the same trio of corecryto calls as arc4random(3):
- commandersaki 7mo agoI think that /dev/u?random being implemented by Fortuna is actually incorrect, and the macOS manpages are wrong. My understanding is that it is using a NIST DRBG, there's a Craig Federighi tweet somewhere confirming this. See: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/72221 https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/72221