From: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: "'Jeff King'" <peff@peff.net>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from a CSPRNG
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:03:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <010801d7db5f$bfb25330$3f16f990$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YZRUzHVS32W4Flo/@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
On November 16, 2021 8:03 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-11-16 at 23:20:45, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:
> > We do link with libcurl and use OpenSSL as a DLL to handle TLS. The
> > underlying random source for the nonstop-* configurations as of
> > OpenSSL 3.0 are PNRG supplied by the vendor (HPE) on ia64 and the
> > hardware rdrand* instructions on x86. I know that part of the OpenSSL
> > code rather intimately.
>
> Great, as long as you don't define NO_OPENSSL, I think I can make this work
> with OpenSSL by calling RAND_bytes, which will use whatever OpenSSL uses.
> I'll work on that for a v2 to see if that will meet the needs for your platform,
> and if not, I'll try something else.
>
> That should also have the pleasant side effect of making this more portable
> even for those people who do have less common platforms, since OpenSSL
> will likely be an option there.
I checked config.mak.uname. We should be fine with that qualification.
Regards,
Randall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-17 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 3:35 [PATCH 0/2] Generate temporary files using a CSPRNG brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 3:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from " brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 15:31 ` Jeff King
2021-11-16 16:01 ` rsbecker
2021-11-16 18:22 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-16 19:58 ` rsbecker
2021-11-16 22:41 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 23:20 ` rsbecker
2021-11-17 0:47 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-17 3:05 ` rsbecker
2021-11-17 1:03 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-17 1:50 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-17 3:04 ` Jeff King
2021-11-17 3:12 ` rsbecker
2021-11-17 3:36 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-11-17 20:01 ` Jeff King
2021-11-17 20:19 ` rsbecker
2021-11-17 23:30 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-17 23:34 ` rsbecker
2021-11-17 3:03 ` rsbecker [this message]
2021-11-17 7:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-17 23:01 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-18 7:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-18 22:16 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-22 9:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-16 3:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 15:36 ` Jeff King
2021-11-16 18:28 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-16 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-11-16 19:21 ` Jeff King
2021-11-16 19:33 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-16 15:44 ` [PATCH 0/2] Generate temporary files using a CSPRNG Jeff King
2021-11-16 22:17 ` brian m. carlson
2021-11-16 22:29 ` rsbecker
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-16 21:06 ` Jeff King
2021-11-17 8:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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