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

Comment by Andrew Ayer

Posted in reply to Comment by Reader Jayson Vantuyl.

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Could you clarify what you mean by "memory locks" in this context? As for checking times(), you can always make the fork detection better, and that's a good thing, but if it's not 100% you still need to provide an explicit way for the programmer to reseed.

| Posted on 2014-07-16 at 00:30:42 UTC by Andrew Ayer | Parent | Reply to This

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