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 specify GRND_RANDOM) but still only get bytes if the machine was seeded at boot (and block or fail in those cases). Greetings Bernd 2014-10-06 18:26 GMT+02:00 Bradford Wetmore <bradford.wetm...@oracle.com>: > > 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 (by setting the 128bit entropy required >> flag). >> >> It would be good if this is supported out of the box, especially to >> avoid problems when the dev files are missing in some >> container/virtualisation systems. >> >> Greetings >> Bernd >> >>
