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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst index 03ac5570..f488a8bc 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) and greater. Earlier versions may work but are OS random engine ---------------- -OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( +By default OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( ``/dev/urandom`` or ``CryptGenRandom``). This CSPRNG is not reseeded automatically when a process calls ``fork()``. This can result in situations where two different processes can return similar or identical keys and |