Closed Bug 1110688 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Resolve open question about random initialization

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: Sync, defect)

Product:
Firefox for iOS
Component:
Sync
Platform:
All
iOS 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

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Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: rnewman, Assigned: rnewman)

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Proposed patch. v1
46 bytes, text/x-github-pull-request
st3fan
: review+
Details | Review 
In Sync we use SecRandomCopyBytes. It's not immediately obvious whether this needs to be initialized or seeded. This bug is to resolve that question.
Attached file Proposed patch. v1 — 

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I also see Apple sample code use `arc4random`.

See https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/arc4random.3.html - which has a note:

> There is no need to call arc4random_stir() before using arc4random() functions family, since they auto-matically automatically matically initialize themselves.

    
  
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED

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