OpenSSL PRNG having low entropy - of any interest for us? #2942

issue Diapolo opened this issue on August 26, 2013

Diapolo commented at 9:37 AM on August 26, 2013: none

See http://emboss.github.io/blog/2013/08/21/openssl-prng-is-not-really-fork-safe/
schildbach commented at 9:58 AM on August 26, 2013: contributor

Sure, depends on how you define "us". There are certainly people who created their keys using one of the Android wallets and imported them into bitcoin-qt.

Most Android wallets took care by rotating the affected keys, that means moving coins on these keys to freshly generated keys. After working around the RNG issues, of course.
laanwj commented at 2:14 PM on November 12, 2013: member

This problem does not affect bitcoind/-qt directly. It can indeed be an indirect problem, but there is little to be done about this (apart for forbidding direct key imports and doing "sweep"s instead, there is issue #2751 for that)
laanwj closed this on Nov 12, 2013
laanwj cross-referenced this on Jun 24, 2014 from issue Fix RandAddSeedPerfMon and move large stack objects to heap by laanwj
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