On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 03:53:14PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote: > After reading [1] I'm wondering whether these would at least improve > OpenSSL's implementation of a RSA key generator (page 13 in [1]) ?
Random PID's is a terribly way to get entropy into OpenSSL. You don't get that many bits of entropy that way, and what bits of randomness you get is coming from /dev/urandom. So improving the randomness of /dev/urandom is what's important. Regards, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/