[openssl-users] Seeding before RSA key generation

Jakob Bohm jb-openssl at wisemo.com
Thu Oct 4 15:33:41 UTC 2018


On 04/10/2018 17:14, 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.  1.1.1 has a good random number generator and auto-seeds.
>
What's supposedly bad about the 1.0.x/1.1.0 OpenSSL RNG other
than not being an NSA/NIST design?

Enjoy

Jakob
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