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Now that the glibc leadership changes have taken place, hopefully we can see functions like arc4random, explicit_bzero, timingsafe_bcmp, reallocarray and the ot
by AlyssaRowan 12y ago
Now that the glibc leadership changes have taken place, hopefully we can see functions like arc4random, explicit_bzero, timingsafe_bcmp, reallocarray and the other stuff actually appear in glibc where they belong, so no glue will be required.
They are pretty damn useful when you're trying to do secure programming.
(Of course, arc4random should use ChaCha20.)
- dobbsbob 12y agothe function name is arc4random but it's chacha20 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138065251627052&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138065251627052&w=2
- AlyssaRowan 12y agoIndeed, that's my point: don't forget that the name is legacy and slightly misleading. RC4 is about to get another public result against it, btw.
- fafner 12y agoI think there recently was a proposal for reallocarray in glibc. Not sure what happened to it though.