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#71915 openssl_random_pseudo_bytes is not "fork-safe"

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Tom Worster

10 years ago

mathieuk has requested feedback on a patch to mitigate this problem in PHP.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71915

Tom

Jakub Zelenka

10 years ago

I have added some feedback and assigned it to myself ;)

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:

Chris Riley

10 years ago

On 29 March 2016 at 19:49, Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net> wrote:

> I have added some feedback and assigned it to myself ;)
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
>
> > mathieuk has requested feedback on a patch to mitigate this problem in
> PHP.
> >
> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71915
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
>

Would the safest option here not just be upon fork, reseed the RNG from
/dev/urandom ?