"random PID" - worth to be considered (again) ?

From: Toralf Förster
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 09:53:15 EST


After reading [1] I'm wondering whether these would at least improve
OpenSSL's implementation of a RSA key generator (page 13 in [1]) ?

/me knows about the security-by-obscurity discussion like in [2],
however here I do not speak about guessing next PID, but about the
described entropy hole.

[1] https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf
[2] http://marc.info/?t=94754302700001&r=1&w=2

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