On 26 August 2016 at 11:33, Benjamin Kaduk <bka...@akamai.com> wrote:

> - Because ossltest cooks MD5 to output a constant value, OpenSSL's RNG
> becomes constant.
>
>
> Is it specifically MD5 and not SHA1?  That would be worrisome, as I
> thought rand_lcl.h would be setting up for USE_SHA1_RAND by default, not
> md5.
>

No, that was an offhand comment - it produces a constant output for most
hash functions: MD5, SHA-1, SHA256, 384, and 512.

-tom
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