Re: Cryptokit.Random unsuitable in cooperative multithreaded systems

[Stephen Dolan <stedolan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shouldn't Mirage be using /dev/urandom anyway? I don't think /dev/random is a good idea for anything non-interactive, it's too easy to DoS.

Stephen

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le mardi, 23 avril 2013 à 15:28, Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :

> Cryptokit's a pretty important project, particularly to Mirage. If I remember right, it moved to the Forge after Sylvain took over maintainership. The last release was June 2012, so it doesn't seem totally unmaintained.

Well the original author seems even active at the moment:

https://forge.ocamlcore.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=875

Daniel