Entropy-supplying system calls
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Entropy-supplying system calls
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Entropy-supplying system calls are system calls in Unix-like operating system kernels through which processes can obtain entropic or random data. The first of these was getentropy, introduced to the OpenBSD operating system in release 5.6, as a refactoring of the sysctl(3) KERN_ARND approach used since 1997. Linux offers a very similar system call, getrandom, which was based on getentropy. It was first available in Linux 3.17, released in October 2014. In July 2015, Solaris introduced slightly m
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2023-03-27T16:10:04Z
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