On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:52:52PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I've gone and looked at this now. Using EGD to seed SSL if there is
> no random device is a good idea, yes -- but it also seems like something
> that should be done in the SSL library itself rather than on an ad-hoc
> basis in every single SSL-using application.
It is done in the SSL library itself. We could make it transparent if
there was a standard path for the EGD socket, but as things are, OpenSSL
needs the RAND_egd() function call to find out where the socket is.
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