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author | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-01-09 16:44:59 +0000 |
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committer | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-01-09 16:44:59 +0000 |
commit | 599c03530ae1b63df396d35b9227d239d451e8fd (patch) | |
tree | 81518ae1c99cdf7de23dfd4eaf8d50ae0ea7a5b8 /CHANGES | |
parent | 56a67adb6486df1ab417217e9855a1acc07b40ba (diff) | |
download | openssl-599c03530ae1b63df396d35b9227d239d451e8fd.tar.gz |
Add automatic query of EGD sockets to RAND_poll(). The EGD sockets are
only queried when the /dev/[u]random devices did not return enough
entropy. Only the amount of entropy missing to reach the required minimum
is queried, as EGD may be drained.
Queried locations are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool
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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ (and "OBJ_cleanup" in crypto/objects/obj_dat.c as an example). [Geoff Thorpe] + *) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant. + If an EGD or PRNGD is running and enough entropy is returned, automatic + seeding like with /dev/[u]random will be performed. + Positions tried are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool. + [Lutz Jaenicke] + *) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several random devices and only read data for a small fragment of time to avoid hangs. Also separate out the Unix variant to it's own |