On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:08:14PM -0800, Sean Walton wrote:
> Go ahead and check the sources for the urandom file (using grep). I
> would suspect that since ANSIrand is not an automatically loaded package
> (you said that you had to install it manually), you have to configure
> your environment accordingly. [With UNIX-types, always assume that you
> have to mess around with your environment.]
> I would also suggest that you use the $RANDFILE for simplicity.
> The Linux version automatically uses the /dev/random file, because that
> file comes standard with all later versions of the kernel.
That's not correct (presumably just a typo :-)
OpenSSL on UNIX (not just on Linux) will automatically try to connect to
/dev/urandom. It will never touch /dev/random without being explicitly
told to do so, because /dev/random is normally blocking until enough
entropy is available.
Best regards,
Lutz
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