On Tue, Mar 16, 2010, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I am looking at an old piece of code: > > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SAMPO/smime-0.7/smimeutil.c > > ... > #ifdef WINDOWS > LOG_PRINT("RAND_screen..."); > RAND_screen(); /* Loading video display memory into random state */ > #endif > ... > > And I was wondering why RAND_screen was being called only on windows ? >
It was used at one point for PRNG seeding. Now OpenSSL gathers entropy from a number of OS specific sources and doesn't need the explicit call any more. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
