On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, LuKreme wrote: > On 21-Jul-2009, at 16:43, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> On Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:16 AM +0200 Patrick Ben Koetter >> <p...@state-of-mind.de> wrote: >>> These days OpenSSL is able to determine which random source it wants >>> to >>> use. This might explain why it is empty in a Postfix install on Mac >>> OS X, >>> since it isn't required anymore. >> >> This is definitely used by the Postfix tlsmgr process > > How'd you determine that?
He read src/tlsmgr/tlsmgr.c. >> and it is specifically set on all Linux builds I do to be dev:/dev/ >> urandom. > > And who set it? There is no such setting on my FreeBSD systems. Then you changed it. In sufficiently recent versions of FreeBSD, PREFERRED_RAND_SOURCE defaults to "dev:/dev/urandom". Take a look inside src/util/sys_defs.h. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
