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

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