Any way to collect only from HRNG?
This can be a choice or not?
> e_os.h
> 
> #ifndef DEVRANDOM 
> /* set this to a comma-separated list of 'random' device files to try out. 
>  * My default, we will try to read at least one of these files */
> #define DEVRANDOM "/dev/random"                                            
> #endif  



El lun, 22-09-2008 a las 11:54 +0200, Lutz Jaenicke escribió:
> > If the true random generator is in /dev/random, and I want use only
> this
> > device for random data using openssl.cnf:
> > RANDFILE              = /dev/random
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >   
> 
> This is nearly correct. OpenSSL will read 2048 bytes from it
> (2048 is hardcoded for device files to avoid endless loops, seems my
> statement below was not completely up-to-date).
> The first attempt to generate a pseudo random number will however
> still read an additonal amount of bytes from /dev/urandom. 

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