You really have lost me now!
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 February 2001 15:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: random state, openssl.cnf and RAND_edg("/var/run/egd-pool")
> 1. in apps/app_rand.c:181 the openssl application tries to read from file
> 'n' regardless whether RAND_egd(n) already succeeded.
Aha.
--- app_rand.c.orig Tue Mar 14 00:54:04 2000
+++ app_rand.c Fri Feb 2 16:06:32 2001
@@ -177,8 +177,10 @@
if (*n == '\0') break;
egd=RAND_egd(n);
- if (egd > 0) tot+=egd;
- tot+=RAND_load_file(n,-1);
+ if (egd > 0)
+ tot+=egd;
+ else
+ tot+=RAND_load_file(n,-1);
if (last) break;
}
if (tot > 512)
And now:
$ openssl rand -out ~/.rnd -rand /u/local/var/entropy 1024
255 semi-random bytes loaded
> I think this is insane, probably it is related to look like a
> FIFO, where open() makes sense.
Yup, totaly insane.
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