Re: Support getrandom() for pg_strong_random() source - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> On 6 Oct 2025, at 20:27, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> That RFC appears to be specific to UUIDv4, but assuming that advice is generally
>> applicable to UUIDs in general it seems to mean we are off the hook when it
>> comes to FIPS with respect to UUIDs.
>
> The most recent RFC still says that [1]. And it doesn't appear to
> mandate the use of a CSPRNG at all, so it'd be unfortunate if UUIDs
> were bound by FIPS considerations... but my opinion has no effect on
> whether they're bound in practice.

Using a UUID as salt would perhaps be one scenario which would turn the RNG
used for UUIDs into security functionality according to the FIPS definitions?

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Daniel Gustafsson