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author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-14 17:07:56 +0000 |
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committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2016-10-14 17:07:56 +0000 |
commit | a1933bd1847951b959016f59ee744d1b18a00142 (patch) | |
tree | 42392f2df048defd712fa12d290bf84a7a77df6d /tools/leapsecs.txt | |
parent | eaf9404b22bba7be5092672144b867380c602beb (diff) | |
download | skalibs-a1933bd1847951b959016f59ee744d1b18a00142.tar.xz |
Clean up and modernize librandom.
Correct random number generation has historically been
suprisingly painful to achieve. There was no standard,
every system behaved in a subtly different way, and there
were a few userland initiatives to get decent randomness,
all incompatible of course.
The situation is a bit better now, we're heading towards
some standardization. The arc4random() series of functions
is a good API, and available on a lot of systems -
unfortunately not Linux, but on Linux the new getrandom()
makes using /dev/random obsolete.
So I removed the old crap in librandom, dropped EGD support,
dropped dynamic backend selection, made a single API series
(random_* instead of goodrandom_* and badrandom_*), added
an arc4random backend and a getrandom backend, and defaulted
to /dev/urandom backed up by SURF in the worst case. This
should be much smaller and logical. However, it's a major
API break, so the skarnet.org stack will be changed to
adapt.
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