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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ayke van Laethem 478c592b13 wasm: add support for the crypto/rand package
This is done via wasi-libc and the WASI interface, for ease of
maintenance (only one implementation for both WASI and JS/browsers).
2021-08-05 19:01:14 +02:00
Ayke van Laethem d94f42f6e2 crypto/rand: replace this package with a TinyGo version
This package provides access to an operating system resource
(cryptographic numbers) and so needs to be replaced with a TinyGo
version that does this in a different way.

I've made the following choices while adding this feature:

  - I'm using the getentropy call whenever possible (most POSIX like
    systems), because it is easier to use and more reliable. Linux is
    the exception: it only added getentropy relatively recently.
  - I've left bare-metal implementations to a future patch. This because
    it's hard to reliably get cryptographically secure random numbers on
    embedded devices: most devices do not have a hardware PRNG for this
    purpose.
2021-06-21 18:22:31 +02:00