On Feb 6, 2018 6:35 AM, Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 06:25, ed...@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 ChaCha20 cipher. It is thread safe. Every call stirs it more adding to it's randomness. Thanks, Edgar > > I also redirect this to the libgcrypt mailing list. > > > Salam-Shalom, > > Werner > > -- > Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users