From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, rsbecker@nexbridge.com,
"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from a CSPRNG
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 23:12:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdTUTASUsJg3DJb2@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlezvb2p2.fsf@gitster.g>
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On 2022-01-04 at 21:39:37, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Another thought. As far as I can see on the C code side in the
> later part of the patch, we are prepared to see multiple HAVE_* for
> CSPRNG defined by the builders, and let us choose the best one for
> them. I wonder if it makes sense to allow
>
> make CSPRNG_METHOD='arc4random getentropy'
>
> as a way to tell us that they have these two and want us to pick the
> best one for them.
>
> It does not add much value for human builders, but I suspect that it
> would make it simpler when we need to add autoconf support.
That shouldn't be a big deal. I can do that.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-04 1:55 [PATCH v2 0/2] Generate temporary files using a CSPRNG brian m. carlson
2022-01-04 1:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from " brian m. carlson
2022-01-04 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-04 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-04 23:12 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2022-01-04 22:56 ` brian m. carlson
2022-01-04 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-04 1:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names brian m. carlson
2022-01-04 12:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Generate temporary files using a CSPRNG Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-17 21:56 ` [PATCH v3 " brian m. carlson
2022-01-17 21:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] wrapper: add a helper to generate numbers from " brian m. carlson
2022-01-18 9:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-18 13:31 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-17 21:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names brian m. carlson
2022-01-18 9:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-18 14:42 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-18 14:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-18 16:44 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-18 17:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-19 17:49 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-22 10:41 ` René Scharfe
2022-01-24 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-19 3:28 ` brian m. carlson
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