Of the use of unpredictableSeed

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Mar 21 03:27:27 PDT 2017


On 3/8/17 11:24 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 March 2017 at 20:15:56 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> On 03/07/2017 05:18 AM, Seb wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Ooh, that's great to know! (Kinda sad that it seems necessary, given
>> the "unix filesystem and unix design" ideals, but oh well, realities
>> are realities.)
>>
>> Is there a "proper" way to check for this function's existence on a
>> local machine, other than test-compiling, or is parsing 'uname -a' as
>> "right way" as it gets?
>>
>> And anyone know about OSX? Would OSX use the getentropy the article
>> you linked to mentions for OpenBSD? Or something else? Or just
>> fallback to /dev/(u)random?
>>
>> This really deserves a Phobos PR, IMO, FWIW.
>
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5230

Thanks Yuxuan, sorry for missing this. Can we have this peer reviewed by 
1-2 crypto experts? Thanks! -- Andrei


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