Re: FIPS seed_pid issue

2012-10-16 Thread Kumar Ghanta
fips with GETPID_IS_MEANINGLES. Thanks. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Kumar Ghanta kumar...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for the quick response Stephen. Is it fine if we allow parent and child processes to share the same seed? I just want to know if there are any NIST restrictions

Re: FIPS seed_pid issue

2012-10-14 Thread Kumar Ghanta
at 1:31 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson st...@openssl.orgwrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012, Kumar Ghanta wrote: Hi, Earlier versions of openssl-fips (versions 1.1.2 etc) have the following checks in the fips_rand.c. It looks this check is being removed in the later versions. I just want to know whether