On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:47:43PM -0400, Diana Moreland wrote:
> My version of the Linux kernel (2.0.33) is a couple of years old and I
> do not have /dev/random or /dev/urandom on my system. I've been
> researching what to use instead and have become confused.
>
> I downloaded EGD, installed it and started the daemon, pointing it to
> /etc/entropy. When I point the SSLRandomSeed directive to /etc/entropy,
> the httpd daemon hangs up trying to start. Do I need to recompile
> OpenSSL to include the RAND_egd function? If so, how do I make OpenSSL
> see it?
RAND_egd() is part of OpenSSL since 0.9.5.
The SSLRandomSeed function must especially know that the corresponding
source is of EGD type:
SSLRandomSeed startup egd:/etc/entropy
In any case, you can use egc.pl (part of the EGD package) to check the
proper operation of EGD:
egc.pl /etc/entropy get (read number of bits available)
egc.pl /etc/entropy read 255 (retrieve 255bytes of random data)
... see egc.pl for the description.
Best regards,
Lutz
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