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by cratermoon 4353 days ago
The OpenBSD folks are doing it, and in the comments in the source they make it clear they expect the OS to provide a secure and stable entropy source.
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And I expect my car to provide a reliable form of transportation, but if I turn the key in the morning and chickens fly out from under the hood, I stop what I'm doing, I don't keep driving to work.
Agreed. Maybe the default in LibreSSL should be swapped from "go ahead and use this fallback faux-entropy if we have to" to "fail if we can't get good entropy". It'd be a matter of changing and undef to a def in the code.