RE: Entropy for OpenSSL

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Mills
, 2012 10:30 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: RE: Entropy for OpenSSL OpenSSL will try to use random sources available for the OS, so supplying your own additional randomization is usually not required. You can call RAND_status() to determine if the library was successful getting enough random

RE: Entropy for OpenSSL

2012-08-24 Thread Thomsen, Brant
Brant -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:07 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Entropy for OpenSSL I'm looking at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mailing.openssl.users/j8O bkLf6xgs Do I interpret it correctly as saying that assuming I do not

RE: Entropy for OpenSSL

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Mills
Ping! Anybody? Charles -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:07 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Entropy for OpenSSL I'm looking at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mailing.openssl.users/j8O bkLf6xgs Do I interpret it correctly as s

Entropy for OpenSSL

2012-08-22 Thread Charles Mills
I'm looking at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mailing.openssl.users/j8O bkLf6xgs Do I interpret it correctly as saying that assuming I do not have some clever source of entropy of my own, that I should just "do nothing" and let OpenSSL do what it decides is best? In other wor