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Re: GRUB2 on OpenBSD 5.3-amd64: linking problem


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: GRUB2 on OpenBSD 5.3-amd64: linking problem
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:31:06 +0200
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On 23.08.2013 11:26, Ilya Bakulin wrote:
> On Thursday 22 August 2013 20:16:48 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
> wrote:
>> On 21.08.2013 21:06, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>> Based on your work, current WIP patch. I've committed some parts of your
>>> patch as well as my own fixes. Remainder is attached
>>> Current problems:
>>> -double/float is mostly a kludge
>>> -build-grub-mkfont
>>> -nm on OpenBSD doesn't accept same options as GNU one.
>>
>> Only the first problem still remains.
> 
> I have just tested the compilation of the latest revision (5148) and confirm 
> that it compiles OK!
> There is a warning about random generator not being secure in 
> util/grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2.c, which may be supressed by adding "&& ! defined 
> (__OpenBSD__)" to the defines list.
To do this we need a confirmation that reading from /dev/urandom is
indeed the right way to access PRNG on OpenBSD and that it gives us
cryptographically good random.

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