user-space threads

Fri Oct 25 02:00:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz writes:
 > 
 > 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?
PGP used keystrokes. See also http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/usenix98.pdf.
Andrew.