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Re: Flag to bail out if not enough entropy?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 23:30:47 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Török Edwin wrote:

> With 'OpenSSL 1.0.2h-fips 3 May 2016' and 'chmod 0660 /dev/urandom; chmod
> 0660 /dev/random;' curl loops infinitely in that function. This might be
> dependant on the OpenSSL version, but apparently RAND_bytes consumes more
> entropy than RAND_add adds back, so its not as bad as I initially thought.
> Still I'd prefer an error message to an infinite loop :)

Do you have any suggested patch to fix this? 

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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