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LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux [Update: LibreSSL fork fix]

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proc(5) says that the 22nd field of /proc/pid/stat, starttime, is clock ticks since since system boot, so this wouldn't be influenced by clock changes. Looks like the only way to get that value is to read /proc though.

| Posted on 2014-07-15 at 02:19:35 UTC by Reader The Great Forker | Parent | Reply to This

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