Re: OpenSSL randomness seeding - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: OpenSSL randomness seeding
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Msg-id 20200722053510.GG9642@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: OpenSSL randomness seeding  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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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?
--
Michael

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