Re:Fixing Getrandom()
by brynet on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:17PM
(#21128781)
Sure it would, except nobody is brave enough to do it. They're too busy attacking some detail, this week it's diskless situations, next week it's "untrusted" random hardware/rdrand, and ignore a system that mixes components together.
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I suppose that's the curse of the success of Linux. Now that it's everywhere, it also has to answer to all kinds of usage scenarios.
Re:Fixing Getrandom()
by tedunangst on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:50PM
(#21130469)
The problem is not intractable if you are willing to solve pieces of it. Then you solve another piece. Then somebody realizes they're the odd man out, and they solve their piece.