On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Harald Welte wrote:

> Hi Michal,
> Hi OpenSSL developers,
> 
> as part of my work for VIA, I am trying to find out what we can do to
> make sure the VIA Padlock RNG is activated by default.

What are the consequences of the kernel and OpenSSL contending over
the RNG? Wouldn't it be better to ensure the kernel is seeding itself
from the Padlock RNG and just let OpenSSL seed via the usual
/dev/urandom?

-d
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