On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Juergen Moellenhoff wrote:
> Yes, I know but I still can't figure out - with a function call or a
> define or a constant from some .h files - how much data the PRNG
> needs (at least) to be happy :-)... maybe in the future the PRNG
> needs 256 bits or whatever... in the moment I check with
> RAND_status() if the PRNG needs more data, if not I call RAND_seed()
> again... and so on...
Is that a problem? Normally, you'll feed in all randomness that is
readily available. If that is not enough for the PRNG, you will have
to wait for some external to produce more randomness. Typically that
will involve querying the external resource in a loop anyway.
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