On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 07:24:41AM -0700, Brian Hatch wrote:
> > > Before anyone says it's in the FAQ, I've checked this out long and hard
> > > and I'm pretty sure this is a bug.
>
> not terribly hard, its on the stunnel.org page and older
> stunnel web faq since march. Yeah, it's a bug.
See below !!!
> > The RANDFILE environment variable is only used in the example applications
> > in the apps/ subdirectory.
>
> and stunnel-3.8p1 and better.
See below !!!
> > It is the responsibility of the application to provide an interface,
> > commandline or configuration file option to assure proper seeding.
> > If stunnel doesn't do this, it is at fault.
>
> It was indeed at fault all the way up to version 3.8.
>
> > In order to solve your problem, add an appropriate call to stunnel,
> > so that during the initialization procedure an additional
> > RAND_egd("/etc/entropy");
> > is called.
>
> Or better yet upgrade to stunnel-3.8p1 or more recent from
> http://www.stunnel.org/ which has a variety of ways of specifying
> your random source (including RANDFILE and $HOME/.rnd, for
> compatibility with folks who expect it)
Here is "below" :-)
Until now I did not know of "www.stunnel.org". My bookmarks still contained
the old(?) address in Poland, as does the OpenSSL home page.
The latest version listed there is 3.8 (without p1 etc) and there is no link
to the new site!!!!
To the OpenSSL-Administrators: please update the stunnel entry (considering
this to be the new official home of stunnel!?).
Best regards,
Lutz
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