rand_win.c(361) RAND_add(buf, sizeof(buf), 0);This is inconsistent with line
375 which passes sizeof(buf) for the bytes of entropy.
This means that the entropy from the OS pool is discounted; in normal
circumstances this is insignificant because the rest of this function collects
plenty of entropy from the rest of the system.
In rare cases this leads to problems in md_rand.c -- line 403
ok = (entropy >= ENTROPY_NEEDED); if (!ok)
In the case that rand_win.c doesn't seed with enough entropy it goes on to stir
the pool it but never sets 'ok' afterward and so ssleay_rand_bytes returns
failure which seems a bit harsh.
Locally we've changed rand_win.c to pass sizeof(buf) when adding the entropy
from PROV_RSA_FULL which avoids the problems in md_rand.c -- I'm not sure what
the intention is there, though.
The rare case involved actually came about after we discovered that RAND_poll
was locking heaps in our process and generally causing massive hitches in
certain parts of our game; once we'd traced it back to this heap-crawling stuff
we made two changes to RAND_poll:
1) We increased the size of buf to 10242) We changed line 45 to if (kernel &&
!good)
The idea is that if the OS entropy pool will feed us a good chunk of good
random numbers we can avoid beating the hell out of the heap which required
serialization. Initially we found this worked great until certain users started
complaining about OpenSSL errors because of the bugs described above -- it
turns out some of them had turned off the OS Workstation service which was
contributing entropy in rand_win.c(269) which brought us below the required
amount of entropy in md_rand.c and here we are.
-g
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