Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first
by cwyers on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:24AM
(#11629002)
It goes against the Linux kernel documentation, yes. As has been pointed out to them, it doesn't go against the documentation on OS X or any of the BSDs. But they engage in the same behavior on those systems.
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Re:Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom first
by lmm on Friday May 06, 2016 @10:21AM
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Well, perfectly reasonable to take the intersection of capabilities rather than special-case each platform. AIUI the behaviour of /dev/urandom and /dev/random is the same on OSX and *BSD, so there's no problem with their behaviour there.