> with RAND_status() I can check if the the PRNG has been seeded with enough
> data, but is there a way to figure out how much data the PRNG needs before I
> call the functions RAND_add() or RAND_seed()?

Quoted from a previous answer:

"As of version 0.9.5, the OpenSSL functions that need randomness report
an error if the random
number generator has not been seeded with at least 128 bits of
randomness."

A+

Pascal


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