Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 11 authors, 2014-07-23

Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call

From: Rolf Eike Beer <hidden>
Date: 2014-07-18 16:36:58
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Theodore Ts'o wrote:
DESCRIPTION

	The system call getrandom() fills the buffer pointed to by buf
	with up to buflen random bytes which can be used to seed user
	space random number generators (i.e., DRBG's) or for other
	cryptographic processes.  It should not be used Monte Carlo
	simulations or for other probabilistic sampling applications.
The "for" looks misplaced, shouldn't this be "for Monte Carlo simulations or 
other ..."?

Greetings,

Eike

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