Re: Move OpenSSL random under USE_OPENSSL_RANDOM

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:46:38PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:00 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> I kind of like the idea of continuing to abstract this functionality, not
>> pulling in OpenSSL headers in fork_process.c is a neat bonus.  I'd say it's
>> worth implementing to see what it would imply, and am happy to do unless
>> someone beats me to it.
> 
> Yeah, if it's likely to be usable in the other implementations, then I
> think we should definitely explore exactly what that kind of an
> abstraction would imply. Anything isolating the dependency on OpenSSL
> would likely have to be done at that time anyway in that case, so
> better have it ready.

With the NSS argument, agreed.  Documenting when this initialization
routine is used is important.  And I think that we should force to
look at this code when adding a new SSL implementation to make sure
that we never see CVE-2013-1900 again, say:
void
pg_strong_random_init(void)
{
#ifdef USE_SSL
#ifdef USE_OPENSSL
	RAND_poll();
#elif USE_NSS
	/* do the NSS initialization */
#else
	Hey, you are missing something here.
#endif
#endif
}
--
Michael