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Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.stripped versus botan
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Thomas Moschny |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.stripped versus botan |
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Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:19:10 +0100 |
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Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Also, do we really
> need cryptographic entropy in mkstemp.cc? Currently *every
> invocation* of monotone_mkstemp is initializing a new RNG object.
> Fortunately it's only called from LUAEXT(mkstemp), but still...
Why can't we simply re-use the RNG object? Really, I don't think we
should implement another pseudo random number generator ourselves.
Basically it won't ever be properly reviewed.
- Thomas
[Monotone-devel] Re: nvm.stripped versus botan, Zack Weinberg, 2009/01/23