Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/modules/ssl mod_ssl.h ssl_engine_dh.c ssl_engine_init.c ssl_engine_kernel.c ssl_engine_rand.c ssl_scache_dbm.c ssl_scache_shmcb.c ssl_scache_shmht.c

[William A. Rowe, Jr.]

At 01:55 PM 2/25/2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
>Why was the XXX_SBENTROPY_SOLVED define removed?  I believe we wanted
>to avoid using scoreboard as an entropy source because it isn't very
>random.  Therefore, I think we should just remove this code
>altogether.  Or, am I missing something?  -- justin

You missed nothing.  This patch is borked.  Although in truth is does allow the
process to add the score as entropy, it gains us little, since the 
scoreboard is
initialized to nothing but a few bytes of data and a big block 'o nulls.

+1 on removing this old, misleading code altogether.

Bill