On Fri, Mar 03, 2006, OpenSSLGRT wrote: > I did see that but I think I misunderstood, so ... > I still am not sure then how I would accomplish the following: > 1.) Take a seed and the known output of the PRNG with that seed. > 2.) Seed the PRNG with the seed and get a RAND > 3.) See if that RAND in step 2 I sthe same as the one in Step 1 >
The standard PRNG mixes in various random sources of data at various points and its output depends on its internal state which is affected by explicit calls to seed it and calls to obtain random data from it. BTW if this is for FIPS then you can't use the standard OpenSSL PRNG because it isn't FIPS compliant, that's why an alternative PRNG in the FIPS module in 0.9.7. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
