[HN Gopher] Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024)
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       Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024)
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2026-03-27 14:41 UTC (5 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.xoria.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.xoria.org)
        
       | Terretta wrote:
       | Excellent dive: methodically clear, converging into lovely "ok, I
       | got it" diagram, then applied use case examples.
       | 
       | Two year old typo:
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       |  _In another bit of intriguing similarity, Common Crypto makes
       | the same trio of corecryto calls as arc4random(3):_
        
       | commandersaki wrote:
       | I think that /dev/u?random being implemented by Fortuna is
       | actually incorrect, and the macOS manpages are wrong. My
       | understanding is that it is using a NIST DRBG, there's a Craig
       | Federighi tweet somewhere confirming this.
       | 
       | See: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/72221
        
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