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I love how Theodore Ts'o suggests using a user space PRNG that is seeded from /dev/urandom. OpenBSD are ripping out all of the user space PRNG stuff from OpenSS
by X-Istence 13y ago
I love how Theodore Ts'o suggests using a user space PRNG that is seeded from /dev/urandom. OpenBSD are ripping out all of the user space PRNG stuff from OpenSSL in favour of arc4random_buf()...
- clarry 13y agoarc4random_buf() operates in userspace (in this case; it also exists in the kernel). It is seeded from the kernel, using a sysctl.