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by X-Istence 4442 days 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()...
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clarry 4442 days ago
arc4random_buf() operates in userspace (in this case; it also exists in the kernel). It is seeded from the kernel, using a sysctl.
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