comment on getrandom (was getrandom: new applet)

[walter harms]

Am 03.07.2016 18:46, schrieb Denys Vlasenko:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:47 PM, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
>> perhaps a better aim ist to improve the $RANDOM in ash ?
> 
> 
> $RAMDOM generator in my tests passed all "dieharder -g 200 -a" tests.
> How much better than this do you need?
> 

Just for you understanding: I do not need a better $RANDOM, we are aware of
the current short comings but for us that is ok in the moment.

But according to this article https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/
The idea behind getrandom() is to provide a safer way to get a random variable
by providing a syscall instead relying on a device that may not be available.
(plus block/unblock feature).

So far i understand the idea behind the getrandom() programm is to way for
I can imaging that for practical application it would be ok if they check
for an environment variable like $getrandom (real rand) that uses the features
of getrandom.

re,
 wh

i do not want it my gut feeling made me do it ...