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0 pointsshittyadmin7y ago0 comments

Yup, if you want to see the state of the art in this, here it is from libsodium:

They sum it up in their docs like this:

- On Windows systems, the RtlGenRandom() function is used

- On OpenBSD and Bitrig, the arc4random() function is used

- On recent Linux kernels, the getrandom system call is used

- On other Unices, the /dev/urandom device is used

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loeg7y ago

It seems they use getrandom() on FreeBSD too:

    # if defined(__FreeBSD_version) && __FreeBSD_version >= 1200000
    #  include <sys/random.h>
    #  define HAVE_LINUX_COMPATIBLE_GETRANDOM

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