Hi there, I'm using OpenSSL 0.9.7g, and am trying to document the sources of entropy used automatically by the PRNG. O'Reilly's Network Security with OpenSSL lists the following sources (page 100 & 102), but I'm not sure if the egd sources are checked automatically:
/dev/random /dev/urandom /var/run/egd-pool /dev/egd-pool /etc/egd-pool /etc/entropy I'm also wondering how many bytes (by default) are read during the automatic seeding. After installing /dev/random on an HP-UX 11i box, the time to seed was nearly a minute (which is actually not a problem, I just need to document what's happening). One more question. If I set RANDFILE to an egd device, will RAND_load_file(RAND_file_name(x,y),z) behave, and will it happily seeded the PRNG? Thanks to all replies, Adam M. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
