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Thursday, 15 May 14:30 - 14:55
(Europe/Lisbon)
Session room 2 | Opala I & II
In this talk, I will describe the history and issues of providing a CSRNG in userland on Linux, from the initial proposal on glibc to provide arc4random (and the pitfalls to support old kernels), to the first short-lived implementation based on BSD, to the new vDSO-based getrandom and the requirements for aarch64 implementation and optimization.