From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 5 13:55:59 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A1E37B428; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g15LtfN08731; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:55:41 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:55:40 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mark Murray , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020205134833.T59017@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message