Re: Bug relating to /dev/urandom and RAND_egd in libcrypto.a

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

leblanc> Anyway, this is what I did:
leblanc> unsigned char entropy[4096];
[...]
leblanc> RAND_bytes(entropy, 4000);
leblanc> RAND_seed(entropy, 3000);

And what do you think this gives you?  Have you actually thought of
checking the returned status code?  This is what I would call a
blatant chicken-and-egg problem.

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