Re: getrandom and getentropy

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:

>Please think what that statement means. Consider for fun emulating a 20
>year old computer with a deterministic high precision model keeping all
>storage in memory. There is no source of entropy in such a system and no
>way for the emulation to tell.

Sadly everything is an emulated 20 year old computer nowadays.

On the other side it can provide a virtiornd device to an emulation
of a 25 year old OS which feels perfectly safe.

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