Better Random Number Generation for OpenSSL, libc, and Linux Mainline
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2017-11-22 20:59
But what’s really exciting for us is that, in the course of working on libc, we were also able to get traction on another important change, in Linux itself. Last year, we suggested a new madvise() option for the Linux kernel. Based on OpenBSD’s MINHERIT_ZERO, the option marks memory regions as WIPEONFORK, which means that those regions are zeroed in a child process immediately after a fork() call.
source: HN