[issue20952] OpenSSL and RDRAND

2021-10-21 Thread Christian Heimes
Christian Heimes added the comment: Thankfully RDRAND is no longer a concern for us. All OpenSSL versions in official Python.org installers and supported by recent Python versions have a strong and fork-safe RNG. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed __

[issue20952] OpenSSL and RDRAND

2014-03-16 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Apart from our Windows binaries, this doesn't seem much of a Python issue. Python normally links with whatever the system OpenSSL is. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker _

[issue20952] OpenSSL and RDRAND

2014-03-16 Thread R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray : -- nosy: +christian.heimes, pitrou ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue20952] OpenSSL and RDRAND

2014-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
New submission from Jeffrey Walton: Some versions of OpenSSL use the RDRAND engine by default. The versions include openssl-1.0.1-beta1 through openssl-1.0.1f. RDRAND has taken some criticism because its essentially unaudited and it could be spiked like the Dual-EC generator (http://blog.cryp