curl-library
Re: SSL RAND entropy init takes 30-60 depending on implementation
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, listman wrote:
> I would recommend replacing the RAND_screen call with a call to
> RAND_bytes( &c, 1 );
I checked the man pages. RAND_bytes() only works with an already seeded PRNG.
I fail to see how it can be used to seed it then!
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Received on 2004-06-12