On 27 May 2014 09:16, Joseph Birr-Pixton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27 May 2014 08:45, Peter Waltenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ...
>> I did change the RNG sources for some of the OpenSSL code in our hacked
>> version to help with the performance problems using the wrong source causes,
>> for example RSA blinding data can safely come from a DRBG
>> (pseudo_rand_bytes()).
>
> I assume you mean RAND_pseudo_bytes. In which case you should know
> that RAND_pseudo_bytes has a broken interface and cannot ever be used
> safely in a way which makes it different from RAND_bytes.
>
> To restate:
>
> Callers of RAND_pseudo_bytes are either unreliable, or equivalent to
> RAND_bytes. Do not use it.

Have I missed something? What are you referring to here?
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