Of the use of unpredictableSeed

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-03-07 21:15, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:

> And anyone know about OSX? Would OSX use the getentropy the article you
> linked to mentions for OpenBSD?

As far as I can see, there's no "getentropy" on macOS. I see references 
to it online, but I cannot find it in any header files.

> Or something else?

I found something called "arc4random" and a couple of related functions [1].

> Or just fallback to /dev/(u)random?

/dev/(u)random does exist on macOS. This is what Apple seems to 
recommend [2].

[1] 
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/arc4random.3.html

[2] 
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Security/Conceptual/cryptoservices/RandomNumberGenerationAPIs/RandomNumberGenerationAPIs.html

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/Jacob Carlborg