From: "Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>,
jann@thejh.net, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Michael@phoronix.com
Subject: Re: arc4random - are you sure we want these?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:33:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBLoAe89Pwt=F_jcZirVXQA7JtugV+5+BWHBt0RaZka1y0K=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220725174430.GI7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:44 PM Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> Then don't fallback to /dev/urandom.
Those are my thoughts as well.. but __libc_fatal() if there is no
usable getrandom syscall with the needed semantics, in short making
this interface usable only when the kernel is.
This is quite drastic, but probably the only sane way to go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-25 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2022-07-23 16:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-23 17:18 ` Paul Eggert
2022-07-24 23:55 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2022-07-23 17:39 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-23 22:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 15:33 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-25 15:59 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-25 17:41 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-25 16:18 ` Sandy Harris
2022-07-25 16:40 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-25 16:49 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-25 16:51 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 17:44 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-25 18:33 ` Cristian Rodríguez [this message]
2022-07-25 18:49 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-27 1:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-27 2:16 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-27 2:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-27 11:34 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-27 12:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-27 12:49 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-27 20:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-27 21:59 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-28 0:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-28 0:39 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-07-27 15:39 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-23 19:04 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-07-23 22:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-24 16:23 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-07-24 21:57 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 10:14 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-25 10:11 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-25 11:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 12:39 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-25 13:43 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 13:58 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-07-25 16:06 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-25 16:43 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-26 14:27 ` Overwrittting AT_RANDOM after use (was Re: arc4random - are you sure we want these?) Yann Droneaud
2022-07-26 14:35 ` arc4random - are you sure we want these? Yann Droneaud
2022-07-25 13:25 ` Jeffrey Walton
2022-07-25 13:48 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 14:56 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-25 22:57 ` [PATCH] arc4random: simplify design for better safety Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 23:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 23:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-25 23:59 ` Eric Biggers
2022-07-26 10:26 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 1:10 ` Mark Harris
2022-07-26 10:41 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 11:06 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-26 16:51 ` Mark Harris
2022-07-26 18:42 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 19:18 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 19:24 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 9:55 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-26 11:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 11:07 ` [PATCH v3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 11:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 11:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Florian Weimer
2022-07-26 11:20 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 11:35 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 11:33 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 11:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 12:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 12:20 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 12:34 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 12:47 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 13:11 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 13:30 ` [PATCH v4] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 15:21 ` Yann Droneaud
2022-07-26 16:20 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 18:36 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 19:08 ` [PATCH v5] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 19:58 ` [PATCH v6] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-07-26 20:17 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 20:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-28 10:29 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-07-28 10:36 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-07-28 11:01 ` Adhemerval Zanella
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