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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: noloader@gmail.com, bug-gnulib@gnu.org,
	Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Subject: Re: getrandom vs. crypto/gc-random
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:01:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2541102.OfSY6IVP6x@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d2535d7-bf66-619a-a875-0f438295c190@cs.ucla.edu>

Hi Paul,

> I installed the attached patch to the Gnulib doc, which attempts to address this
> along with the GRND_INSECURE business.

No guidance regarding getrandom vs. crypto/gc-random any more?

We have two modules, 'getrandom' and 'crypto/gc-random' (in fact 3, if you also
count 'getentropy'), but no guidance when the users should choose one or the
other. As a user, I would expect to find such a guidance.

Bruno



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-01 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-25 19:37 [PATCH] getentropy, getrandom: new modules Paul Eggert
2020-05-30 12:58 ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 22:43   ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-31 11:23     ` getrandom vs. crypto/gc-random Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 11:47       ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 13:14       ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-05-31 13:23       ` Simon Josefsson
2020-05-31 19:02         ` Bruno Haible
2020-06-01 13:45           ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-06-01 16:53             ` Bruno Haible
2020-06-01 18:13               ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-01 19:01                 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2020-06-01 23:00                   ` Paul Eggert
2020-06-01 23:51                     ` Bruno Haible
2020-06-02  0:04                       ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-30 13:17 ` [PATCH] getentropy, getrandom: new modules Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 14:23 ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 23:06   ` sys_random: Work around macOS bug Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 23:28     ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-05-31 10:29       ` Apple platforms Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 15:34 ` [PATCH] getentropy, getrandom: new modules Bruno Haible
2020-05-30 23:14 ` fix list of crypto devices for NetBSD, OpenBSD Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 10:57 ` fix list of crypto devices for Solaris Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 16:26 ` getrandom: Add support for native Windows Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 16:41   ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-05-31 16:49 ` getrandom: doc and test tweaks Bruno Haible
2020-05-31 18:15 ` [PATCH] getentropy, getrandom: new modules Bruno Haible

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