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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Use arc4random_buf on FreeBSD/DragonFly
From: |
felix . winkelmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Use arc4random_buf on FreeBSD/DragonFly |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:13:09 +0200 |
> * address@hidden <address@hidden> [180906 12:27]:
> > Should be self-explaining...
>
> I would delay this patch. I did look up FreeBSD's code base and it
> seems that they have importet OpenBSD's version 18 days ago, according
> to https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/arc4random.c
>
> The old version does not use a save random number generator and
> using the old method is better in that case. Same goes for DragonFly.
>
Well, we can just leave things as they are for the moment.
felix