Re: OpenSSL randomness seeding

> On 2 Aug 2020, at 09:05, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 11:48:23PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:42:16PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> Somewhat on topic though, 1.1.1 adds a RAND_priv_bytes function for random
>>> numbers that are supposed to be private and extra protected via it's own DRBG.
>>> Maybe we should use that for SCRAM salts etc in case we detect 1.1.1?
>>
>> Maybe. Would you have a separate pg_private_random() function, or just use
>> RAND_priv_bytes() for pg_strong_random()? No pg_strong_random() caller is
>> clearly disinterested in privacy; gen_random_uuid() may come closest.
>
> FWIW, I am not sure that we need extra level of complexity when it
> comes to random number generation, so having only one API to rule them
> all sounds sensible to me, particularly if we know that the API used
> has more private protections.

I would agree with that, especially since we might not be able to provide an
equivalent implementation of a pg_private_random() function in non-OpenSSL
builds.

Will do a bit more reading and poking and post a patch.

cheers ./daniel