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[Thierry Carrez <thierry.carrez+lp@xxxxxxxxx>]

This feels like an interesting security strengthening, but I'm not sure
there currently is an exploitable vulnerability here, so no need for a
security advisory ?

** Changed in: ossa
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Also affects: nova
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  [Security-NIST]nova/virt/xenapi/agent.py does not fit the NIST about
  random

Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  New
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
   def generate_private(self):
          self._private = int(binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(10)), 16)
          return self._private

  The function 'generate_private' is aiming to generate a random key for Diffie Hellman
  encryption. But os.urandom implementes by query /dev/urandom which is unblocking GNG might did fit NIST.

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