At 18:10 01.07.2002 +0200, you wrote: >does anyone knows how to obtain a big random seed in systems >that doesn't provide /dev/urandom?
Get and port for example PRNGD. (http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html) >may be i could initialize RAND_seed with current time, and then generate >random numbers and provide them as the new random seed. is this a good >choice? No! This way you get no more entropy than the amount contained in "current time" which is far too less for cryptographic purposes. Ciao, Richard -- Dr. Richard W. K�nning Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
