Re: arc4random - are you sure we want these?

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On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 6:59 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Doesn't getrandom() already basically have this quality?

In current kernels. yes. problems with old kernels remain..The syscall
overhead being too high for some use cases is still a remaining
problem,
if that was overcomed it could be used literally for everything,
including simulations and other stuff.



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