Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935023AbaGRQg6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:36:58 -0400 Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([78.47.74.12]:45984 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932384AbaGRQg5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:36:57 -0400 From: Rolf Eike Beer To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-abi@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, beck@openbsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:36:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1883713.E4uoxDXDyt@caliban.sf-tec.de> User-Agent: KMail/4.13.2 (Linux/3.15.4-1.g2b59ae6-desktop; KDE/4.13.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1405588695-12014-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> References: <1405588695-12014-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart22677037.uztPAu2aTS"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart22677037.uztPAu2aTS Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Theodore Ts'o wrote: > DESCRIPTION > > The system call getrandom() fills the buffer pointed to by buf > with up to buflen random bytes which can be used to seed user > space random number generators (i.e., DRBG's) or for other > cryptographic processes. It should not be used Monte Carlo > simulations or for other probabilistic sampling applications. The "for" looks misplaced, shouldn't this be "for Monte Carlo simulations or other ..."? Greetings, Eike --nextPart22677037.uztPAu2aTS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlPJTSMACgkQXKSJPmm5/E6o7gCggoszbVeh52J3cF1yROIdHqc9 yOAAnA8gcIcFthALvU++/WoUU0HNhDVX =YeqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart22677037.uztPAu2aTS-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/