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		edwintorok on July 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LibreSSL's PRNG is Unsafe on Linux 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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