Sebastian Andrzej Siewior dixit: >On 2019-02-19 23:10:40 [+0000], Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> When I do “openssl rand 4 | hd”, the file ~/.rnd is ignored >> (judging from its tiestamp and md5sum, it’s not rewritten, >> and probably not read either) despite me adding the line >> >> RANDFILE = $ENV::HOME/.rnd >> >> to openssl.cnf as described in config(5). > >So what do we do here? The file, that is specified as RANDFILE here, was >used more often in earlier releases. Currently it is seeded via >getrandom() and the file is hardly used. Therefore it is mostly ignored. > >Can this be closed or do you expect something else?
I’d expect the content of the file to be mixed in at startup and updated from the OpenSSL-internal pool, like in earlier versions. bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t block Googlemail, they’re just too utterly stupid to successfully deliver to me (or anyone else using Greylisting and not whitelisting their ranges). Same for a few other providers such as Hotmail. Some spammers (Yahoo) I do block.