Re: Linux getrandom() support

2014-10-06 Thread Bernd
Hello, I think this here is a good start. It shows good the background: http://lwn.net/Articles/605828/ the details have changed meanwhile, so the new proposed manpage has it: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg07010.html The biggie is, that you can use urandom semantic (i.e. not specif

Re: Linux getrandom() support

2014-10-06 Thread Bradford Wetmore
Worth looking into, but no plans at the moment. Do you have a link? Brad On 10/5/2014 7:44 PM, Bernd wrote: Hello, Is there already support for the upcoming getrandom() syscall in Linux 3.17 kernel planned? I guess this would be a good feature for SSL and the strong SecureRandom variant (b