[PATCH] Update to the Samba crypto requirements document

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jan 3 14:54:04 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 03:49:10PM +0100, Björn JACKE via samba-technical wrote:
> our latest keynote speaker wrote about getentropy earlier this year:
> https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a6673828

This says that glibc does not have a fallback to /dev/urandom if the
syscall is not around. That means we have to implement the fallback
ourselves in case we run with modern libc on an old kernel? Or shall
we just abort then?

Volker

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