From: "Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] random-bits: Factor out entropy generating function
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 20:10:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBLoAe=3qBjwvwzNeCANsh-L9NXL6cOOYWu3h9eGi8QS-QxYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rwPDehwCG6j4LKUoKEHkSzcJXDwL8iMYc2P+nqj7Miqw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 2:32 PM Jason A. Donenfeld via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>re, since somebody CC'd me into this
> thread. I've already made two RNGs here for various spitballed
> objectives.
I added you to this conversation because I wanted to hear the opinion
from someone with good knowledge on the subject. in particular to
evaluate the possibility of adding a better, fast PRNG for non-crypto
purposes for internal use of the C library, since the existing code
isn't quite "random",
This revived once again the topic of introducing BSD's arc4random API
to glibc, a subject that has been circulating for quite some time,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-05 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-28 22:09 Noah Goldstein
2022-03-28 22:09 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] x86: Use rdtsc for generating entropy for random_bits Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 19:51 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] random-bits: Factor out entropy generating function Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-29 19:56 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 20:04 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 20:14 ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-29 20:44 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-29 20:52 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 20:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-29 20:44 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-30 15:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-30 16:30 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-30 19:38 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-31 4:45 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-03-31 10:08 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-31 11:17 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-31 11:25 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-31 11:48 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-31 12:14 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-31 13:12 ` Yann Droneaud
2022-03-31 15:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-03-31 18:16 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-31 21:57 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-03-31 22:33 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-31 22:51 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-03-31 23:05 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-31 23:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-01 18:01 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-04-04 17:42 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-04 18:23 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-04-04 18:38 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-04 18:52 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-04-04 19:20 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-04 19:48 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-04-04 19:57 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-04 14:51 ` Florian Weimer
2022-04-04 14:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-04 15:00 ` Florian Weimer
2022-04-04 16:51 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-04-04 17:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-04 18:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-04 19:16 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-04-05 0:10 ` Cristian Rodríguez [this message]
2022-04-05 0:18 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-05 13:45 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-04-05 9:22 ` Florian Weimer
2022-04-04 18:28 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-05 9:20 ` Florian Weimer
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