On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> The man page for the analagous function RAND_write_file
> states that it writes 1024 bytes (i.e. 8192 bits) into a
> file for later reading by RAND_read_file. That sounds like
> more than enough for seeding a 256 bit key. I'll lower the
> size if no one has a reason otherwise.

Sounds good to me.

> > At least some comment explaining it has nothing to do with
> > the buffer size we're using would help.
>
> I actually did add a tiny comment before committing the
> patch.

Thank you.

-DB
Received on 2005-03-04