On Wed, Jun 28, 2000, Brian S. Craigie wrote:
> it doesn't appear to proceed to look wherever RANDFILE is defined, nor
> to call RAND_egd. The command-line SSL programs do honour the RANDFILE
> settings, but libcrypto.a doesn't appear to. From what I can see in the
> source, apps/app_rand.c is correctly coded to try RAND_egd, but nothing
> in the crypto/ directory calls RAND_egd. I don't know where this should
> be coded, or I would try to do it myself.
Unfortunaltely there is no default path for the EGD socket. That means
that libcrypto.a doesn't know where to find it unless your application
calls RAND_egd().
If you'd like to ask application developers to add EGD support, you can point
them to http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_egd.html
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