Re: automatic seed size

2006-04-04 Thread Marek Marcola
Hello, > 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/ur

automatic seed size

2006-04-03 Thread Adam Mlodzinski
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/