On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:41:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a 32-bit application that was working fine, but when i compiled it as > 64-bit, it started to fail. I was getting this error: "PRNG not seeded". > > I read the documents and FAQ, and it states that the library needs to be > seed with at least 128 bits (16 bytes?). I was seeding it with a 22 byte > string. Like i said, this was fine in 32-bit mode, but not in 64-bit mode. > I started using the RAND_status() function to check this out. > > I ended up just seeding it with twice the amount (32 bytes of data) and that > was enough for the library. I didn't bother trying to find any bounds for > it. > > Anyway, i thought you people might like to konw about this. Maybe the > document doesn't properly reflect the implementation.
Can you give more information about versions, platform etc? (As of 0.9.7, 32byte are required because AES with 256bit=32byte is integrated) Best regards, Lutz -- Lutz Jaenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aet.TU-Cottbus.DE/personen/jaenicke/ BTU Cottbus, Allgemeine Elektrotechnik Universitaetsplatz 3-4, D-03044 Cottbus ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]