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Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024) (xoria.org)
54 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Excellent dive: methodically clear, converging into lovely "ok, I got it" diagram, then applied use case examples.

Two year old typo:

In another bit of intriguing similarity, Common Crypto makes the same trio of corecryto calls as arc4random(3):


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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