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Development of userspace BTRFS tools
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Use crypto libraries for random number generator as well #717

Closed kdave closed 2 months ago

kdave commented 7 months ago

There's a libc provided (pseudo)random generator using /dev/urandom seed and jrand48. When there's a crypto library configured as backend we can use their random number libraries, most of them provide one.

kdave commented 7 months ago

Not necessary until we need a cryptographically strong random numbers for eg. keys or nonces.