Re: Speed and security of /dev/urandom

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On 19/07/14 20:26, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> I think that using sysctl for non-management functionality is wrong.
> If this feature is for the libraries and applications, and not for
> system management and introspection utilities, it should be normal
> syscall.

If this is only to seed the arc4random in userland (with ~256 bytes or
so), it would be just like OpenBSD getentropy(2)?

Just yesterday, something very similar is proposed for Linux, called
getrandom(2):
http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2014/07/18/329

Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
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