Hi,

On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 17:05 +0900, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> why not just open /dev/urandom and only if it is not present fallback
> to C library rand() etc.
> 
> I mean realistically the device node will be present.

That's a fail-safe way of doing this without interrupting anybody
whether they have /dev/urandom or not. Will update the current a bit too
strict patch set to take this into account.

With that one /dev/urandom need not be present at compile time.

> Also in the future we will be able to use AF_ALG since I have seen
> patches exposing a per socket random number generator.

Indeed.

Cheers,

        Patrik


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