On Fri, 29 May 2020 17:54, Steffen Nurpmeso said: > Looking at the source it seems libgcrypt knows about the Linux > getrandom systemcall. Yet it does not seem to know about glibc's > getrandom library function.
Which was not available back then when I implemented support for getrandom. Further; there is no guarantee that getrandom(2) is supported on all machines. We care a lot about backward compatibility and can't simply demand a certain Linux kernel or glibc version. > i would change, maybe with a new call-in to rndlinux.c which > should be made responsible for Linux-only environmental detections You don't change audited RNG code if there is not a very good reason for that. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
