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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:09:54 -0600
Subject: Re: [patches] add support for arc4random_buf()
From: edgar@pettijohn-web.com
To: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, Edgar Pettijohn <edgar@pettijohn-web.com>
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On Feb 6, 2018 6:35 AM, Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue,=C2=A0 6 Feb 2018 06:25, edgar@pettijohn-web.com said:
> > Please see attached patches to add support for arc4random_buf() as an
> > alternate to /dev/{u}random. I tried to be as unobtrusive as possible
> > and maintain style. It should also allow the user to still define
> > RANDOM_CONF_ONLY_URANDOM if they would prefer to use
> > /dev/urandom. This will allow gpg to be used on filesystems mounted
> > nodev while providing quick, quality randomness.
>
> Please describe what arc4random_buf is and where it is used.

The manual is probably the best source of information.

http://man.openbsd.org/arc4random

However, the tldr.

arc4random_buf() fills the buffer with nbytes of random data using the ChaC=
ha20 cipher. It is thread safe. Every call stirs it more adding to it's ran=
domness.

Thanks,

Edgar
>
> I also redirect this to the libgcrypt mailing list.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
> =C2=A0=C2=A0 Werner
>
> --=20
> Die Gedanken sind frei.=C2=A0 Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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