linux-kernel - "random PID" - worth to be considered (again) ?

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Message-ID: <4FFAE24A.2070404@gmx.de>
Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:53:14 +0200
From:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: "random PID" - worth to be considered (again)  ?

After reading [1] I'm wondering whether these would at least improve
OpenSSL's implementation of a RSA key generator (page 13 in [1]) ?

/me knows about the security-by-obscurity discussion like in [2],
however here I do not speak about guessing next PID, but about the
described entropy hole.

[1] https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf
[2] http://marc.info/?t=94754302700001&r=1&w=2

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