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OpenSSL feeds your private key to the system PRNG

7 pointsby damncabbageabout 11 years ago

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damncabbageabout 11 years ago
(There was no title for the post; please forgive my editorialising.)<p>In short, if there&#x27;s not enough seed data in the system PRNG (or whatever random subsystem is hooked up), it dumps in your private key in an attempt to increase entropy.<p>Removed today: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c.diff?r1=1.2;r2=1.3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvsweb&#x2F;src&#x2F;lib&#x2F;libssl&#x2F;src&#x2F;cry...</a>