New blog post "Fast-key-erasure random-number generators": https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html … An effort to clean up several messes simultaneously.
That's compelling, but I still don't want jitter. Seems easy enough to do.
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I don't think you can compare so neatly to RAND_bytes, without thread/fork safety. Either need locks or thread-local storage + fork-guard.
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Which will add slowness, or memory, or more likely a bit of both. Obviously the underlying algorithm is better, but locks esp can dominate.
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