| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
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| To: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OpenSSL randomness seeding |
| Date: | 2020-07-22 05:35:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20200722053510.GG9642@paquier.xyz |
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:00:20PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> These look good. I'll push them on Saturday or later. I wondered whether to
> do both RAND_cleanup() and RAND_poll(), to purge all traces of the old seed on
> versions supporting both. Since that would strictly (albeit negligibly)
> increase seed predictability, I like your decision here.
Thanks Noah for taking care of it. No plans for a backpatch, right?
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Michael
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