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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by loeg on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:10PM (#21131306)
The /dev/random re-blocking behavior, where entropy is "consumed" (after initial entropy seeding), is a result of lack of crypto understanding by Linux shot-callers, and Linus in particular.

You wouldn't blame them for it 20-25 years ago, but we've known better for at least 15 years so it'd be nice if they'd get with the program. And it can be fixed without breaking their userspace ABI that they're usually fanatical about not breaking. Linus wanting to break getrandom's ABI just shows he still doesn't understand how CSPRNGs work.

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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by dependenttypes on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:11PM (#21131888)
Surely someone must have explained that to them years ago, right? Would you happen to have a discussion in mind where the maintainers of the RNG generators commented on the issue? I would like to see their perspective but I am kind of lost.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by loeg on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:39PM (#21150453)
I imagine so, but I'm not close to the Linux kernel community and don't know. I don't get the impression that Linus, for example, changes his mind particularly easily.
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