On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Joerg Mueller-Tolk wrote:

> What else would seed the random number generator, i.e. on a Windows machine?

RAND_screen() is used on Windows machines.

But really, I don't know why this happens for you. I'm just assuming since
OpenSSL says that, it must be problem with the seeding in lib/ssluse.c.

>> Consider providing your own random source (file) with CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE.
>
> As I understand the manual, It takes the content of the file as seed.
> I suppose it is enough to set this option at the very first connection and
> the file can be removed afterwards?

Yes that should be enough. And set CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE to NULL again.

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