On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Stanislav Meduna wrote: > So what should the applications calling openssl actually > do if this happens? Now the ssh/apache/... simply exit, > which is bad (it left me without an access to a remote > box...).
Exiting is the best behaviour - continuing without a good source of randomness may compromise cryptographic protocols and even long-term private keys (e.g. if DSA is used). -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
