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Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: ongoing entropy problems
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Werner Koch |
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: ongoing entropy problems |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:36:17 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:19:21 +0100, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos said:
> But would this protect from two children accessing the same random
> seed?
This is not required. After reading some data gets mixed into the
pool, one item is the pid another are 16 bytes from /dev/urandom. So
you will never get the same pool and due to /dev/urandom even a
sibling process won't be able to predict the pool's state.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner