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

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Thu Aug 24 18:12:33 UTC 2017


On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 05:32:15PM +0000, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev wrote:
> 
> >    An idea that I had was to default to reseed on fork if we know we
> >    have a working syscall.

... to get entropy

>   
> Or /dev device too?

The point is that you can't be sure that /dev is still going to be
available, we need to be sure we still have a source available.


Kurt



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