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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon libtom

Wishlist: Use getentropy() in rng_get_bytes.c if available

Open oittaa opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

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Description

It would be great if you supported getentropy() in https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/blob/develop/src/prngs/rng_get_bytes.c

It's found at least in modern Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD based operating systems. It blocks reads until the random pool is initialized and after that "it just works" without complicated error checks. Thanks for the great library!

oittaa avatar Apr 10 '22 12:04 oittaa