Re: [Libevent-users] bug? arc4_seed_proc_sys_kernel_random_uuid() does not set arc4_seeded_ok on success

[Joseph Spadavecchia <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:28:41 -0400, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[...]
> Good thing we're only using the PRNG for DNS transaction ids.  Still,
> we should get a better PRNG eventually[*]
> 
> Patching this bug in 2.0 and 2.1.

Thanks.  Yeah, it could have been worse.  Hopefully the bug has not been
copied anywhere outside libevent with more serious implications.

> [*] (Oh hey look what I did in my spare time the other month:
> https://github.com/nmathewson/libottery .  But see all the caveats in
> the README.)

Nice stuff.  I'll have a read through it sometime (it's a nice way to get
familiar with ChaCha too).  Could this be a future (non-default) option for
evutil_secure_rng?

Thanks,
*Joe

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