Re: [openssl-users] Seeding before RSA key generation

2018-10-04 Thread Andres Traumann
Thank you for your help. Andres On 10/4/18 6:47 PM, Matt Caswell wrote: On 04/10/18 16:14, Salz, Rich via openssl-users wrote: Which version of OpenSSL are you using? 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 have a bad random number generator and must be explicitly seeded. This is not correct. The RNG in 1.0.2 and

[openssl-users] Seeding before RSA key generation

2018-10-04 Thread Andres Traumann
Hello, In the documentation it is written: "The pseudo-random number generator must be seeded prior to calling RSA_generate_key_ex()". After reading the documentation in https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers and investigating the source code, it seems that the seeding is in fact