From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "random PID" - worth to be considered (again) ?
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:17:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120709161722.GB7104@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFAE24A.2070404@gmx.de>
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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2012-07-09 13:53 "random PID" - worth to be considered (again) ? Toralf Förster
2012-07-09 16:17 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
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