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When your process forks, you end up with two processes with identical state. One or the other will need to reseed or the two processes are going to generate the exact same random stream.


I read the article again and now I think I understand: libressl has its own PRNG which is seeded separately from the system's. Now it's that descision I don't understand but I seems a lot of other people don't either. Thanks!




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