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

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Tue Jun 27 07:20:37 UTC 2017



On 26/06/17 19:57, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev wrote:
> I was asked off-list why we're doing this.  A reasonable question. :)
> 
> There are many complains about the OpenSSL RNG.  For started:
> 	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/2168
> 	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/898
> 	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/2457
> 	https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/3125
> 
> Also, there's things like this:
> 	It uses MD5

Correction: it uses SHA1.

Matt


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