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From: Kieran Kunhya <kierank@obe.tv>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat/hlsenc: fall back to av_get_random_seed() when generating AES128 key
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 00:34:06 +0100
Message-ID: <CAK+ULv6=SBmm8sdCghajcfggqhWQedOEQd2zjJ+RJY0f+xovCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168862993295.542.15593141999950137681@lain.khirnov.net>

On Thu, 6 Jul 2023, 08:52 Anton Khirnov, <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:

>
> We are not claiming that. We are claiming that the random numbers
> generated are (to the best of our ability, and that of the underlying
> libraries we rely on) cryptographically secure. This means suitable for
> use in state of the art cryptographic algorithms like AES.
> I do not think it makes sense to mistrust CSPRNGs, yet still trust AES.


Agreed, I don't think it's ffmpeg's job to get into a philosophical
discussion about the state of the art of random number generation.

Kieran

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-06 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-02 19:30 Marton Balint
2023-07-02 19:30 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] avformat/hlsenc: remove openssl/gcrypt random key generation Marton Balint
2023-07-03  2:21   ` Steven Liu
2023-07-03  2:20 ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat/hlsenc: fall back to av_get_random_seed() when generating AES128 key Steven Liu
2023-07-03 19:23   ` Marton Balint
2023-07-03 19:33 ` James Almer
2023-07-03 20:15   ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-03 20:54     ` Marton Balint
2023-07-03 21:09       ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-03 21:52         ` Marton Balint
2023-07-04 19:02           ` James Almer
2023-07-04 19:30             ` Marton Balint
2023-07-06 17:01               ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/hlsenc: use av_random_bytes() for " Marton Balint
2023-07-14 19:39                 ` Marton Balint
2023-07-03 23:50         ` [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avformat/hlsenc: fall back to av_get_random_seed() when " Michael Niedermayer
2023-07-04  5:54           ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-04  9:08             ` Kieran Kunhya
2023-07-04 14:37             ` James Almer
2023-07-04 15:31               ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-04 23:50             ` Michael Niedermayer
2023-07-05  9:22               ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-05 22:54                 ` Michael Niedermayer
2023-07-06  7:52                   ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-06 23:34                     ` Kieran Kunhya [this message]
2023-07-07  0:55                     ` Michael Niedermayer
2023-07-07  8:05                       ` Anton Khirnov
2023-07-07 14:42                         ` Michael Niedermayer
2023-07-03 20:20   ` Marton Balint

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