user-space threads

Thu Oct 24 15:24:00 GMT 2002

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> > Wow. I consider that a major omission. A lot of people write code
> > that implicitly relies upon that assumption -- for example, a lot of
> > crypto libraries generate randomness by spinning a thread in a while
> > loop and then flipping a boolean to break the thread out of the loop.

> I wouldn't rely on a crypto library that did that.

What would you suggest instead if SecureRandom is unavailable?
 - a
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