Simo Sorce

@paulidale I am not sure I understand the placement of this function as a functions provided to the core. All providers already provide operations via the query_operation functions and there...

@paulidale I am not sure what the problem is with getting a reference ? You need a reference (a provider context) to access RAND_bytes as well. So you just add...

~Also, what about RAND_priv_bytes?~ (edited) Nevermind, I realized later you just made a picture of one case and it wasn't comprehensive. What I am not sure about is why you...

The mechanism above allows to create a custom provider (call it rdrand) that offer just the random stuff (like the old RDRAND engine), and then by setting ?provider=rdrand as default...

@paulidale I am trying to find time to review it, sorry for not having found it yet. FWIW, I think this is valuable work.