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

Reader Jayson Vantuyl on 2014-07-15 at 22:09:

Memory locks are released on fork, so LibreSSL could lock some single page and watch for it being unlocked to trigger a reseed.

Alternately, what about using the combination of getpid(2) and times(2)? CPU times reset on fork. It's not 100% safe, but it would be pretty good.

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