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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Use arc4random_buf on FreeBSD/DragonFly
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Christian Kellermann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Use arc4random_buf on FreeBSD/DragonFly |
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Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:31:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
* 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.
Maybe a FreeBSD user can correct me on this?
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