[Opendnssec-develop] libhsm: hsm_random() and friends

John Dickinson jad at jadickinson.co.uk
Wed May 20 10:00:30 UTC 2009


On 20 May 2009, at 10:42, Jakob Schlyter wrote:

> hi,
>
> can someone remind me and why we want a hsm_random() function in  
> libhsm? if not, we should remove it for now. for the jitter needed  
> by the signer, it seems a bit overkill to use the HSM for that.


for the salt? Also the HSM is likely to be the best source of  
randomness in the system.

john



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