Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/random_seed: use arc4random() when available

2015-12-17 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde > wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde >>> wrote: arc4random() was designed as a superi

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/random_seed: use arc4random() when available

2015-12-14 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde > wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde >> wrote: >>> arc4random() was designed as a superior interface for system random >>> number generation, designed for Op

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/random_seed: use arc4random() when available

2015-12-10 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde > wrote: >> arc4random() was designed as a superior interface for system random >> number generation, designed for OpenBSD. It is thus an improvement to >> use it whenever available. >>

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/random_seed: use arc4random() when available

2015-12-09 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote: > arc4random() was designed as a superior interface for system random > number generation, designed for OpenBSD. It is thus an improvement to > use it whenever available. > > As a side note, this may or may not get included in glibc, and t

[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/random_seed: use arc4random() when available

2015-12-06 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
arc4random() was designed as a superior interface for system random number generation, designed for OpenBSD. It is thus an improvement to use it whenever available. As a side note, this may or may not get included in glibc, and there is a proposal to create a posix_random family based on these ide