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by cperciva on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:46AM
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Re-seeding is easy. The hard parts are (a) finding everything which needs to be reseeded -- not just explicit RNGs but also things like keys used to pick outgoing port numbers in a pseudorandom order -- and (b) making sure that all the relevant code becomes aware that it was just forked -- not necessarily trivial given that there's no standard "you just got restarted from a snapshot" signal in UNIX.
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by Intermernet on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @06:59AM
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I would have thought that in the days of containers, we'd have better tooling around this. Sounds like a goldmine for vuln research!
Isn't this what -HUP is supposed to be for in the first place? Maybe a -STOP/-HUP/-HUP situation?
HUP is short for "hangup" which was supposed to be sent when the tty controlling the session the process is in hung up.