So a major reason, as you explained, for having per-thread DRBG's is to reduce 
contention.  When threadA creates an SSL object, the parent DRBG will be the 
threadA one. Therefore you have to introducing locking, since threadA might 
create two SSL objects and they could end up being used in threadB and threadC 
and each need to reseed from their parent.  In order to do that safely, threadA 
also has to do the locking to avoid conflict. That defeats the major gain of 
per-thread.

I think having the SSL object parent be whatever the *current* thread DRBG is 
seems like the best, if not only, way to go.

 

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