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Re: Support getrandom() for pg_strong_random() source

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Date: 2025-10-09T15:21:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> Yeah..  I'm not sure that it is our job to draw a strict line, either.
> We are labelled as database specialists.  When it comes to
> cryptography, I cannot say for all the others but I'm very confident
> in the fact that I'm bad at it.

Me too... but I do think we have to draw lines if we're going to
develop features on top of pg_strong_random.

--Jacob