RE: random state, openssl.cnf and RAND_edg("/var/run/egd-pool")

[Boyd Lynn Gerber]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Hughes wrote:
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> And now:
>
> $ openssl rand  -out ~/.rnd -rand /u/local/var/entropy 1024
> 255 semi-random bytes loaded

I used your patch but this still does not work.  Is this the second
problem?

bin/openssl rand -out /.rnd -rand /var/run/egd-pool:/var/adm/syslog 1024

> > I think this is insane, probably it is related to look like a
> > FIFO, where open() makes sense.
>
> Yup, totaly insane.

I agree.

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