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Found the bug myself!
Change ST(1) in SSLeay.xs:2142 to ST(0), this is presumably the id of the
$buffer parameter...
SSLeay.xs:2142:
- char * buf = SvPV( ST(1), len);
+ char * buf = SvPV( ST(0), len);
> Hi all
>
> I've run into a problem with Net::SSLeay::RAND_seed($buf).
>
> I'm working on WinNT4 with Net::SSLeay 1.05 and OpenSSL 0.9.5.
> (I'll be posting instructions how to get those two to work
> together on NT as soon as the Net::SSLeay homepage is up again)
>
> Since OpenSSL 0.9.5 complains when the PRNG is not seeded I'm
> using RAND_seed to provide some initial data. Because this
> didn't seem to help while debugging my perl scripts I built
> debug versions of Net::SSLeay and OpenSSL and tried to track it down.
>
> I found that <openssl>/crypto/rand/rand_lib.c/RAND_seed(const
> void *buf, int num) ALWAYS gets called with a buffer pointing
> to the value "*Net::SSLeay::RAND_seed" and num = 23!!!
> (Except when run in the ActiveState debugger; then the buffer
> always points to "10000" and num=5, which is definetely to
> few bytes, so OpenSSL complains).
>
> There seems to be a problem with the interface from
> Net::SSLeay::RAND_seed() to OpenSSL:RAND_seed(). Does anybody
> know how to fix this?
>
>
> Thanks Marcel
>
> (PS: Sampo, is there any Net::SSLeay 1.0.6 in the queue?)
>
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