Apparently, there are some situations where there is no entropy source
to seed the OpenSSL PRNG.
Is there a uniform way to detect that the OpenSSL PRNG has not been
seeded? Uniform is uniform over the various platforms because I want
to prevent that I need to check on a per platform basis
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Apparently, there are some situations where
Erik Leunissen wrote:
Is there a uniform way to detect that the OpenSSL PRNG has not been
seeded? Uniform is uniform over the various platforms because I want
Call RAND_status() (see http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_add.html#).
Ciao,
Richard
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Fujitsu Siemens
Richard Koenning wrote:
Call RAND_status() (see http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_add.html#).
Right. I overlooked that one.
Thanks,
Erik.
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