From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Cc: "'Git List'" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: Problems with CSPRNG in wrapper.c
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:15:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv8jmr98f.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003d01d94b00$16abc7a0$440356e0$@nexbridge.com> (rsbecker@nexbridge.com's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:06:07 -0500")
<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> First, I was not aware that csprng was a git dependency ...
You can choose from implementations that depend on common external
libraries and system functions, but we have a fallback internal
implementation that only requires /dev/urandom.
See description for CSPRNG_METHOD in Makefile and 05cd988d (wrapper:
add a helper to generate numbers from a CSPRNG, 2022-01-17) for
additional background.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-27 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-27 23:06 Problems with CSPRNG in wrapper.c rsbecker
2023-02-27 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-02-27 23:23 ` rsbecker
2023-02-28 0:11 ` brian m. carlson
2023-02-28 0:51 ` rsbecker
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