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

Matt Caswell matt at openssl.org
Wed Jun 28 09:29:22 UTC 2017



On 27/06/17 19:50, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 02:28 AM, Matt Caswell wrote:
>>
>> On 26/06/17 21:18, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>>
>>> I think it should by default be provided by the OS, and I don't
>>> think any OS is documenting how much randomness it can provide.
>>>
>> I also agree that, by default, using the OS provided source makes a lot
>> of sense.
>>
> 
> Do you mean having openssl just pass through to
> getrandom()/read()-from-'/dev/random'/etc. or just using those to seed
> our own thing?

I meant the former.

Matt


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