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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:55:40 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, des@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.c
Message-ID:  <20020205215540.GB8579@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020205134833.T59017@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20020205184059.GA6785@nagual.pp.ru> <200202051949.g15Jnhs12003@greenpeace.grondar.org> <20020205205907.GA8005@nagual.pp.ru> <20020205214703.GA8579@nagual.pp.ru> <20020205134833.T59017@elvis.mu.org>

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 13:48:33 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> I understand the issue you're bringing up, would it make sense
> to create/utilize a save/restore random() context function?

I don't think it worth to try. We already have acr4random() which is:

1) Safe to call from libraries.
2) Have the same speed compared to random() (or even faster)
3) Auto-seded from true randomness

My patch for this thing just literally replace random() with 
arc4random() and remove srandomdev().

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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