[openssl-users] Seeding before RSA key generation

[Andres Traumann]

Thank you for your help.

Andres

On 10/4/18 6:47 PM, Matt Caswell wrote:
>
> On 04/10/18 16:14, Salz, Rich via openssl-users wrote:
>> Which version of OpenSSL are you using?
>>
>> 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 have a bad random number generator and must be explicitly seeded.
> This is not correct. The RNG in 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 automatically seeds.
> There is no need to explicitly seed it. I also wouldn't describe it as
> "bad". 1.1.1 has a much better RNG, but there is no reason not to trust
> and use the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 RNG.
>
>>   1.1.1 has a good random number generator and auto-seeds.
>>
> 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 auto seed. 1.1.1 additionally auto-*re*seeds.
>
> Matt