Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/8] libxl: add libxl__random_bytes() which fills a buffer with random bytes

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/06/14 13:28, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:04 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> The random bytes are obtained from /dev/urandom and are suitable for
>> almost all uses (except for generating long-lived secure keys).
>>
>> Documentation suggests that /dev/urandom is widely available on Unix-like
>> systems (such FreeBSD and NetBSD).
> 
> This seems likely to me. Roger, can you confirm?

Yes, I can confirm /dev/urandom exists on FreeBSD, I've already checked
when I saw the patch. It seems to exists on NetBSD also:

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?urandom+4+NetBSD-current

But I don't have a system to test with and confirm.

Roger.

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