> That's a great question. Indeed, this platform (AIX) does have > /dev/random but apparently that too was exhausted because that > is checked first in our implementation. I think the fault is truly > with the system in question, because prngd should not have blocked > in the manner it did. Despite this problem being a one-off, there > is a push to "fix" the issue and guarantee it will never happen again. > It was during my investigations that I noticed the blocking nature > of the EGD lookups.
> Ben So what do you want to do if you run out of entropy? DS ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]