Uwe Zeisberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > So I wish, you can implement EGD Support for fetchmail
> > 
> > I don't know how.  Can you point me at any resources?
> 
> Mutt also does use EGD to get random data.
> see mutt-1.2.5/imap/imap_ssl.c in current tar-file
> (ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-1.2.5i.tar.gz)

I've gone and looked at this now.  Using EGD to seed SSL if there is
no random device is a good idea, yes -- but it also seems like something
that should be done in the SSL library itself rather than on an ad-hoc 
basis in every single SSL-using application.

I've copied this reply to the SSL bugs list.  Perhaps someone there will
be able to tell us either when this is planned, or why it is not. 
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