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		loeg on Jan 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Bre... OpenBSD's interface is getentropy(), but yeah, basically the same idea! I believe Linux was the second actor and intentionally made getrandom() a superset of the getentropy interface (i.e., no EINTR below 256 bytes). As a result, writing a getentropy() shim around getrandom is feasible; FreeBSD and Linux (glibc) have done so.

SEJeff on Jan 15, 2019 [–]

Yes, it was ported from OpenBSD. Ted literally calls it out in the commit:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/17/145

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