[gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Wed Jan 18 14:13:39 CET 2006


* Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:

> Well, gnutls shouldn't use /dev/random on normal server use. For
> example if you use only TLS /dev/random shouldn't be accessed. Only
> if you generate private keys (or RSA parameters) /dev/random will be
> used.

TLS needs session keys, and they seem to use cryptographically strong
random numbers.



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