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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, rsbecker@nexbridge.com,
	"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:08:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa6fl6ozi.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f31dd12e-6d27-a070-77e4-ad53fb319735@web.de

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> ...  But
> a replacement for git_mkstemp_mode() with two umask(2) calls looks less
> attractive to me than fortifying git_mkstemps_mode() with a good source
> of randomness.

True.

Also, it is not like we are supplying our own implementation of
random source, but are just pluggig various system-supplied random
source into our code, so I do not see the "auditatiblity" problem we
heard earlier too much of an issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-24 17:08 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
2022-01-19  3:28       ` brian m. carlson

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