> I'm trying to speed up the initialization of a legacy HTTP client > application. Debugging that code, I found the following functions being > called each application startup: > > initialization > SSL_library_init() > SSL_load_error_strings() > OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() > RAND_screen() > > however, the execution of RAND_screen() spends about 3 seconds.
Also see https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Library_Initialization and https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers#Windows_Issues. The short of it is, you should stop relying on auto-initialization of the RNG, and seed it yourself with a call to `RAND_add`. Jeff -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
