libsodium mess

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:32:20 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> > waf errors out when it can't find sodium.h even if you haven't
> > configured with --enable-crypto  
> 
> That is correct behavior.  The code uses ntp_random() - which calls
> libsodium

And sad we need a crypto library just to get random numbers, but it
seems so, at least for now.

> - to fuzz the low-order bits of the clock.

Hmm, can you expand on this a bit?  Which clock?  How much fuzz?
Does this degrade anything?

RGDS
GARY
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