Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/8] libxl: add libxl__random_bytes() which fills a buffer with random bytes

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:04 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> The random bytes are obtained from /dev/urandom and are suitable for
> almost all uses (except for generating long-lived secure keys).
> 
> Documentation suggests that /dev/urandom is widely available on Unix-like
> systems (such FreeBSD and NetBSD).

This seems likely to me. Roger, can you confirm?

> A public libxl_random_bytes() (or similar) could be trivially added,
> if this required in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>



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