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Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:54:29 -0500
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On 1/20/19 7:52 AM, Rawiri Blundell wrote:

> So it might be a case of restricting the usability of this change to
> newer kernels that have dedicated calls like getrandom() or
> getentropy(), and having to handle detecting/selecting those?
> 
> So if this is an exercise that you're happy to entertain, and without
> wanting to feature-creep too much, why not something like this?

I'd probably start with URANDOM as a 32-bit random integer read as
four bytes from /dev/urandom. It's trivial to create a filename from
that with whatever restrictions (and whatever characters) you want.

> As an aside, I can confirm the findings of a performance difference
> between 4.4 and 5.0 when running the script provided earlier in the
> discussion. At first glance it seems to be due to the switch from the
> old LCG to the current MINSTD RNG, 

There's no switch: the bash-4.4 generator and bash-5.0 generators are
identical. I'll have to do some profiling when I get a chance.

Chet

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