In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:39:18 -0500, Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
geoff> ... AFAICS, if code uses RAND_pseudo_..., then that should be geoff> an implicit acknowledgement of the "P" in PRNG ... Actually, I the reasoning behind the named was that unpredictable randomness wouldn't be guaranteed. For example, ssleay_rand_pseudo_bytes(), which takes randomness from the same pool as ssleay_rand_bytes(), will return the requested amount of bytes even if there isn't enough entropy in the pool. The comment above ssleay_rand_pseudo_bytes() says the following: /* pseudo-random bytes that are guaranteed to be unique but not unpredictable */ ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. You don't have to be rich, a $10 donation is appreciated! -- Richard Levitte \ Tunnlandsvägen 3 \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ S-168 36 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
