On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:04:54PM +0000, Jason Cormie wrote: > Package: openssl > Followup-For: Bug #88728 > > > in the openssl changelog it says that 0.9.7 had the ability to try > /dev/random if it didnt find /dev/urandom > > http://www.openssl.org/news/changelog.html > > *) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several > random devices, as specified by DEVRANDOM, until a sufficient > amount of data has been collected. We spend at most 10 ms on each > file (select timeout) and read in non-blocking mode. > DEVRANDOM now defaults to the list "/dev/urandom", "/dev/random", > "/dev/srandom" (previously it was just the string "/dev/urandom"), so on > typical > platforms the 10 ms delay will never occur. > > I assume this means the bug can be closed
I don't agree. DEVRANDOM is a compile time option. This is something you'd want to override in the application or maybe some environment variable. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
