I have to admit it astonishes me that we don't have a safe, efficient, cross-platform way to deal with forking in 2014.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
@matthew_d_green. You mean something like pthread_atfork?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@matthew_d_green@ebiederm Wish LibreSSL would provide explicit way to reseed PRNG, but make it unnecessary in all but really weird cases1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@__agwa@matthew_d_green@ebiederm Small issue: That's how OpenSSL got *into* that crufty mess in the first place.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AlyssaRowan@matthew_d_green@ebiederm Very true, but what else can the library do if OS doesn't provide perfect fork detection?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@AlyssaRowan @matthew_d_green @ebiederm Not attempt to implement its own CSPRNG in userspace would probably be the best answer I suppose
11:40 PM - 15 Jul 2014
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