From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | David CARLIER <devnexen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters. |
Date: | 2017-11-22 15:37:14 |
Message-ID: | 20171122153714.GA19138@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:08:46PM +0000, David CARLIER wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first small personal contribution.
>
> Motivation :
> - Using fail-safe, file descriptor free solution on *BSD and Darwin system
> - Somehow avoiding at the moment FreeBSD as it still uses RC4 (seemingly
> updated to Chacha20 for FreeBSD 12.0 and eventually backported later on).
> - For implementation based on Chacha* it is known to be enough fast for the
> purpose.
> - make check passes.
>
> Hope it is good.
>
> Thanks in advance.
This is neat. Apparently, it's useable on Linux with a gizmo called
libbsd. Would it be worth it to test for that library on that
platform?
Best,
David.
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