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| -rw-r--r-- | src/random.cpp | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/random.cpp b/src/random.cpp index 5dae80fe31..fa53a0f7b9 100644 --- a/src/random.cpp +++ b/src/random.cpp @@ -305,16 +305,14 @@ void GetOSRand(unsigned char *ent32) RandFailure(); } } -#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY) && defined(__OpenBSD__) - /* On OpenBSD this can return up to 256 bytes of entropy, will return an - * error if more are requested. - * The call cannot return less than the requested number of bytes. - getentropy is explicitly limited to openbsd here, as a similar (but not - the same) function may exist on other platforms via glibc. +#elif defined(__OpenBSD__) + /* OpenBSD. From the arc4random(3) man page: + "Use of these functions is encouraged for almost all random number + consumption because the other interfaces are deficient in either + quality, portability, standardization, or availability." + The function call is always successful. */ - if (getentropy(ent32, NUM_OS_RANDOM_BYTES) != 0) { - RandFailure(); - } + arc4random_buf(ent32, NUM_OS_RANDOM_BYTES); // Silence a compiler warning about unused function. (void)GetDevURandom; #elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY_RAND) && defined(MAC_OSX) |