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		enjolras on July 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux look at the code. AT_RANDOM is. used when it's avaible in the fallback function. For some reason, the devs don't seem to trust it much, according to the comment.

edwintorok on July 15, 2014 [–]

Is it guaranteed to at least be different for different processes? They could use that in addition to the PID test to know when to reseed.

wahern on July 16, 2014 | [–]

No. It's only filled on execve, not fork.

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