Hi, I noticed that ECL seems to use poor random implementation on OpenBSD. The file in question is src/c/num_rand.d. There the 'good' implementation uses /dev/urandom but such device is not available on OpenBSD so it will fallback to poorer implementation. OpenBSD has /dev/random and /dev/arandom and as far as I know both use same implementation. It seems that it would be trivial to patch the code to use for example /dev/arandom on OpenBSD but I was wondering would it be better to use arc4random functions instead?
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