alt.hn

3/27/2026 at 2:41:03 PM

Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024)

https://blog.xoria.org/randomness-on-apple-platforms/

by surprisetalk

4/1/2026 at 11:40:14 AM

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):

by Terretta

4/1/2026 at 9:51:49 PM

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

by commandersaki