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

[Ted Ts'o]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 03:53:14PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> After reading [1] I'm wondering whether these would at least improve
> OpenSSL's implementation of a RSA key generator (page 13 in [1]) ?

Random PID's is a terribly way to get entropy into OpenSSL.  You don't
get that many bits of entropy that way, and what bits of randomness
you get is coming from /dev/urandom.  So improving the randomness of
/dev/urandom is what's important.

Regards,

					- Ted
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