Submitting upstream from OpenBSD tree:
The random_device is an abstraction to the underlying OS PRNG. In OpenBSD's case, we know it has optimal entropy properties so specify what that is.
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[libcxx] random_device, for OpenBSD specify optimal entropy properties brad on Jan 12 2021, 5:36 PM. Authored by
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Submitting upstream from OpenBSD tree: The random_device is an abstraction to the underlying OS PRNG. In OpenBSD's case, we know it has optimal entropy properties so specify what that is.
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Comment Actions I thought OpenBSD and Linux might behave the same in that regard. It does look like OpenBSD has ioctl, but not RNDGETENTCNT: https://man.openbsd.org/ioctl.2. Can you confirm this? |
You can include this unconditionally. Please include it alongside "random" and "system_error" above.