#71915 openssl_random_pseudo_bytes is not "fork-safe"

10 years ago by Tom Worster — view source — reply

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

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

Tom

10 years ago by Jakub Zelenka — view source — reply

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

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

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

Tom

10 years ago by Chris Riley — view source — reply

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

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 ?

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