> What, and linux isn't architecture-specific? I have no clue what point you're trying to make. > The counters don't need to be 64-bits: Programs don't need

> What, and linux isn't architecture-specific? I have no clue what point you're trying to make. > The counters don't need to be 64-bits: Programs don't need a random number in one process and the 4 billionth only. If this is going to be used for a CSPRNG, you have to take into account adversarial conditions. A 32 bit counter leaves insufficient safety margin: it's conceivable an attacker could induce an application to generate so many random numbers that the counter wraps around, causing another process to generate a duplicate random number. It may seem unlikely, but time after time security researchers have demonstrated that attacks previously considered "unlikely" are possible.