On Wed, Apr 07, 2010, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:17:01 +0200
> "Dr. Stephen Henson" wrote:
>
> > Well that actual manual page is rather old and it still talks about
> > PRNG initialisation which dates from the time OpenSSL didn't handle
> > that automatically on many platforms.
>
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:17:01 +0200
"Dr. Stephen Henson" wrote:
> Well that actual manual page is rather old and it still talks about
> PRNG initialisation which dates from the time OpenSSL didn't handle
> that automatically on many platforms.
So are you saying there is no need to seed PRNG? Is th
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> > Has the guidance to developers who use OpenSSL for TLS/SSL rather than
> > as general-purpose cryptography toolkit changed wrt. library initialization?
>
> [...]
>
> I suppose it makes sense to add the SHA2 algorithms to SSL_
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>
> http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19536
>
> -SSL_library_init() only registers ciphers. Another important initialization
> -is the seeding of the PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator), which has to
> -be performed separately.
> +SSL_libra
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19536
-SSL_library_init() only registers ciphers. Another important initialization
-is the seeding of the PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator), which has to
-be performed separately.
+SSL_library_init() mainly adds ciphers and digests used directly by S
