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Bad solution for "use strong randomness" #10

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Sc00bz opened this issue May 28, 2019 · 0 comments
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Bad solution for "use strong randomness" #10

Sc00bz opened this issue May 28, 2019 · 0 comments

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Sc00bz commented May 28, 2019

LibreSSL's getentropy_urandom() calls gotdata() which checks if the data is not all zeros. If you are calling this for short random integers, then all zeros is a very possible random value.
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