Why doesn't Linux have a getrandom() syscall or any of the timingsafe_*() comparison functions yet? Seriously there better be a good reason.
@damienmiller @isislovecruft On any kernel with getrandom (and many more) you already have AT_RANDOM.
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@RichFelker@damienmiller WAIT WAT. Your recommendation is I access some "random" longs that Kees fucking Cook fucked into the ELF header? -
@isislovecruft@damienmiller AT_RANDOM is not in the elf header.
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@RichFelker@isislovecruft no use when you want to rekey after chroot/seccomp-bpf, also a bit small (only 16 bits) and not forward-secretThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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