Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:08:46PM +0000, David CARLIER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is my first small personal contribution.
> 
> Motivation :
> - Using fail-safe, file descriptor free solution on *BSD and Darwin system
> - Somehow avoiding at the moment FreeBSD as it still uses RC4 (seemingly
> updated to Chacha20 for FreeBSD 12.0 and eventually backported later on).
> - For implementation based on Chacha* it is known to be enough fast for the
> purpose.
> - make check passes.
> 
> Hope it is good.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

This is neat.  Apparently, it's useable on Linux with a gizmo called
libbsd.  Would it be worth it to test for that library on that
platform?

Best,
David.
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