| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | David CARLIER <devnexen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] using arc4random for strong randomness matters. |
| Date: | 2017-11-22 11:50:57 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqSLCNWqXQr57PD=fwSq79OK71Quk72iKxPuP0YGU291pA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:08 PM, David CARLIER <devnexen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Motivation :
> - Using fail-safe, file descriptor free solution on *BSD and Darwin system
> - Somehow avoiding at the moment FreeBSD as it still uses RC4 (seemingly
> updated to Chacha20 for FreeBSD 12.0 and eventually backported later on).
> - For implementation based on Chacha* it is known to be enough fast for the
> purpose.
> - make check passes.
This looks like a good idea to me at quick glance. Please make sure to
register it in the next commit fest if yo uwould like to get feedback
about this feature:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/16/
--
Michael
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