On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:53:11AM -0600, Ricardo Santos Quintero wrote:
> I have been reading docs and I still haven't found the way to make
> openssl works on my AIX box. AIX does not has a /dev/random, so my system
> isn't able to generate a pool of ramdom data. I found in the openssl docs
> that I can work with egd to generate the pool so I installed egd and it's
> working in this way: 'egd /etc/egd-pool' but openssl still fails...
>
> Do I have to erase all my openssl files and recompile it? Is there a
> directive in the configure step to enable egd use instead /dev/random?
OpeSSL (as of 0.9.6) does not automatically use an EGD socket. The application
must explicitly call the RAND_egd() function (or query the socket itself).
Most of the OpenSSL command line applications support the "-rand" option.
As of 0.9.7 (not yet released) will automatically try to query EGD at
some locations. The online documentation on www.openssl.org lists the
state of the latest development snapshot...
Best regards,
Lutz
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