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authorDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2017-11-24 14:59:58 +0100
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2017-12-17 23:12:10 +0100
commita93ba405b0327db9106f8f224112a2b64fb264e7 (patch)
treed7185e4703fa29127c97315150cc0e3b18a5c8f3 /util/find-unused-errs
parent56d362881eb9173d74f89aa8c4c4b42bc3397a17 (diff)
Add master DRBG for reseeding
A third shared DRBG is added, the so called master DRBG. Its sole purpose is to reseed the two other shared DRBGs, the public and the private DRBG. The randomness for the master DRBG is either pulled from the os entropy sources, or added by the application using the RAND_add() call. The master DRBG reseeds itself automatically after a given number of generate requests, but can also be reseeded using RAND_seed() or RAND_add(). A reseeding of the master DRBG is automatically propagated to the public and private DRBG. This construction fixes the problem, that up to now the randomness provided by RAND_add() was added only to the public and not to the private DRBG. Signed-off-by: Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4402)
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