[openssl-users] RNG behavior by default

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Sat Jan 5 11:02:24 UTC 2019


On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 08:45:37AM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
> I’m not sure about the quality of Android’s sources, but would expect them to be decent.

Android is just a Linux kernel. It always had /dev/urandom. Oreo
(8.0) requires at least Linux kernel 4.4. There were no
requirements for the kernel version before this. Some devices with
Marshmallow (6.0) will run a Linux kernel with 3.18, but not all
of them.


Kurt



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