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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys


From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:13:39 +0100

* Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:

> Well, gnutls shouldn't use /dev/random on normal server use. For
> example if you use only TLS /dev/random shouldn't be accessed. Only
> if you generate private keys (or RSA parameters) /dev/random will be
> used.

TLS needs session keys, and they seem to use cryptographically strong
random numbers.



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