On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:46:20 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > My idea of the p5-BSD-arc4random port in OpenBSD is to keep the API > of the BSD::arc4random Perl module, but use our libc functions > internally. This has been done with BSD::arc4random::arc4random() > a while ago, but BSD::arc4random::arc4random_bytes() and > BSD::arc4random::arc4random_uniform() still use a pure Perl > implementation. I think that should be replaced with our > arc4random_buf(3) and arc4random_uniform(3) in libc.
Using the libc interface instead of pure Perl makes the most sense here. That way improvements in the libc arc4random(3) propagate to the Perl version automatically. OK millert@ - todd
