Re: ssss and random(3)

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:19:44AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> othersrc/crypto/external/bsd/ssss/dist/src/libssss/secsplit.c
> seems to use random(3).
> 
> iirc ssss depends on cryptographically strong random numbers and
> random(3) is not suitable for the purpose.

Interesting, thanks for the observation - I do have a C implementation
of Blum Blum Shub which I was planning on adding RSN.  I just need to
clean it up, and commit it.

Thanks once again,
Alistair