[openssl-dev] Work on a new RNG for OpenSSL

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 08:07:54AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote:
> The bad case I'm aware of is the fork() one as it's critical that the RNG 
> state diverge on fork(). Without that you can get some very nasty 
> behaviour in things like TLS servers. Some of which have a thread pool + 
> fork() model to handle increasing load.
> 
> While ideally you'd do a complete reseed, just different state in each RNG 
> is a LOT better than nothing, and even PID + whatever else you can 
> scrounge up will help a lot. Even the high res counters available on most 
> current CPU's would help there because forking multiple processes isn't 
> quite synchronous.

This is why I want to add things like that by default in the
additional data.


Kurt