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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys
From: |
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:32:45 +0100 |
On 1/30/06, Florian Weimer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The same may happen with libgcrypt applications if several short
> > living processes are running (Exim?). I am not sure whether GnuTLS
> > sets a random seed file at all. Does it?
> In case of Exim, it's regeneration of the RSA_EXPORT key. It is not
> serialized, either, so multiple Exim processes try to regenerate it
> and consume increasing amounts of entropy.
As far as I remember it was saving it to a file to eliminate the need
for regeneration every time. Isn't this the case any more?
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, (continued)
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/18
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/19
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys,
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <=
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Andreas Metzler, 2006/01/30
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/30
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/31