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Joshua Lock
18bad53564 Update various man pages to place HISTORY section after SEE ALSO
SEE ALSO before HISTORY is the more common pattern in OpenSSL manual
pages and seems to be the prevalent order based on sampling my system
manual pages.

Fixes #8631

Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

(cherry picked from commit b5c4bbbe54)

 Conflicts:
	doc/man3/RAND_DRBG_generate.pod
	doc/man3/RAND_DRBG_reseed.pod

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8736)
2019-04-15 12:26:49 +02:00
Pauli
c7504aeb64 Modify the DEVRANDOM source so that the files are kept open persistently.
This allows operation inside a chroot environment without having the
random device present.

A new call, RAND_keep_random_devices_open(), has been introduced that can
be used to control file descriptor use by the random seed sources. Some
seed sources maintain open file descriptors by default, which allows
such sources to operate in a chroot(2) jail without the associated device
nodes being available.

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6432)
2018-06-27 07:15:36 +10:00
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
a73d990e2b Add documentation for the RAND_DRBG API
The RAND_DRBG API was added in PR #5462 and modified by PR #5547.
This commit adds the corresponding documention.

Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5461)
2018-03-30 00:10:38 +02:00
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
c16de9d832 Fix reseeding issues of the public RAND_DRBG
Reseeding is handled very differently by the classic RAND_METHOD API
and the new RAND_DRBG api. These differences led to some problems when
the new RAND_DRBG was made the default OpenSSL RNG. In particular,
RAND_add() did not work as expected anymore. These issues are discussed
on the thread '[openssl-dev] Plea for a new public OpenSSL RNG API'
and in Pull Request #4328. This commit fixes the mentioned issues,
introducing the following changes:

- Replace the fixed size RAND_BYTES_BUFFER by a new RAND_POOL API which
  facilitates collecting entropy by the get_entropy() callback.
- Don't use RAND_poll()/RAND_add() for collecting entropy from the
  get_entropy() callback anymore. Instead, replace RAND_poll() by
  RAND_POOL_acquire_entropy().
- Add a new function rand_drbg_restart() which tries to get the DRBG
  in an instantiated state by all means, regardless of the current
  state (uninstantiated, error, ...) the DRBG is in. If the caller
  provides entropy or additional input, it will be used for reseeding.
- Restore the original documented behaviour of RAND_add() and RAND_poll()
  (namely to reseed the DRBG immediately) by a new implementation based
  on rand_drbg_restart().
- Add automatic error recovery from temporary failures of the entropy
  source to RAND_DRBG_generate() using the rand_drbg_restart() function.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4328)
2017-10-18 08:39:20 -05:00
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
4871fa49cd RAND: Rename the RAND_poll_ex() callback and its typedef
With the introduction of RAND_poll_ex(), the `RAND_add()` calls were
replaced by meaningless cb(...). This commit changes the 'cb(...)'
calls back to 'rand_add(...)' calls by changing the signature as follows:

-int RAND_poll_ex(RAND_poll_fn cb, void *arg);
+int RAND_poll_ex(RAND_poll_cb rand_add, void *arg);

Changed the function typedef name to 'RAND_poll_cb' to emphasize the fact
that the function type represents a callback function.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4266)
2017-08-28 08:52:02 -04:00
Rich Salz
75e2c87765 Switch from ossl_rand to DRBG rand
If RAND_add wraps around, XOR with existing. Add test to drbgtest that
does the wrap-around.

Re-order seeding and stop after first success.

Add RAND_poll_ex()

Use the DF and therefore lower RANDOMNESS_NEEDED.  Also, for child DRBG's,
mix in the address as the personalization bits.

Centralize the entropy callbacks, from drbg_lib to rand_lib.
(Conceptually, entropy is part of the enclosing application.)
Thanks to Dr. Matthias St Pierre for the suggestion.

Various code cleanups:
    -Make state an enum; inline RANDerr calls.
    -Add RAND_POLL_RETRIES (thanks Pauli for the idea)
    -Remove most RAND_seed calls from rest of library
    -Rename DRBG_CTX to RAND_DRBG, etc.
    -Move some code from drbg_lib to drbg_rand; drbg_lib is now only the
     implementation of NIST DRBG.
    -Remove blocklength

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4019)
2017-08-03 09:23:28 -04:00
Rich Salz
8389ec4b49 Add --with-rand-seed
Add a new config param to specify how the CSPRNG should be seeded.
Illegal values or nonsensical combinations (e.g., anything other
than "os" on VMS or HP VOS etc) result in build failures.
Add RDSEED support.
Add RDTSC but leave it disabled for now pending more investigation.

Refactor and reorganization all seeding files (rand_unix/win/vms) so
that they are simpler.

Only require 128 bits of seeding material.

Many document improvements, including why to not use RAND_add() and the
limitations around using load_file/write_file.
Document RAND_poll().

Cleanup Windows RAND_poll and return correct status

More completely initialize the default DRBG.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3965)
2017-07-22 14:00:07 -04:00
Rich Salz
04256277cb Update various RAND podpages
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3883)
2017-07-07 23:53:54 -04:00
Rich Salz
f367ac2b26 Use randomness not entropy
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3773)
2017-06-27 12:14:49 -04:00
Richard Levitte
b97fdb57a2 Fix referenses in section 3 manuals
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1900)
2016-11-11 13:06:43 +01:00
Rich Salz
99d63d4662 Move manpages to man[1357] structure.
Move manpages to manX directories
Add Windows/VMS install fix from Richard Levitte
Update README
Fix typo's
Remove some duplicates

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
2016-10-26 13:59:52 -04:00
Renamed from doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod (Browse further)