I have motherboard with hardware number generator on AMD768 chip. It's a genuine random numbers source, and I would like to use it instead of pseudo-random /dev/urandom.
In my Linux there is a working /dev/hw_random device [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# LANG= ll /dev/hw_random crw-r--r-- 1 sas root 10, 183 Feb 18 14:46 /dev/hw_random And I have some applications in this system using openssl library: cyrus-imapd with SSL support. I've tried either to simlink # ln -sf hw_random /dev/urandom or create corresponding device : # mknod /dev/urandom c 10 183 Whatever I tried, cyrus-imapd immediately fails to accept SSL connections. Since cyrus-imapd by itself does not use any RAND_* functions, and completely relies on openssl for this, I conclude this is openssl fault. May be this is because /dev/hw_random is slower than openssl expects ? How should I cope with this, and force openssl to use hardware ? -- Konstantin Andreev. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
