On Wed, Jan 15, 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: > Commit 3cd8547a2018ada88a4303067a2aa15eadc17f39 mixed the current > time into the randomness pool each time RAND_bytes is called. As > the resolution of gettimeofday() is limited, I propose to reseed the > PRNG each time a PID change is detected. >
I know historically some platforms have different PIDs for different threads. That would cause problems with this patch. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
