Re: Seeding the OpenSSL PRNG (continued ...)

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Leunissen
Richard Koenning wrote: Call RAND_status() (see http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_add.html#). Right. I overlooked that one. Thanks, Erik. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User

Re: Seeding the OpenSSL PRNG (continued ...)

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Koenning
Erik Leunissen wrote: Is there a uniform way to detect that the OpenSSL PRNG has not been seeded? "Uniform" is uniform over the various platforms because I want Call RAND_status() (see http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_add.html#). Ciao, Richard -- Dr. Richard W. Könning Fujitsu Siemen

RE: Seeding the OpenSSL PRNG (continued ...)

2006-09-28 Thread Adam Mlodzinski
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Leunissen > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:25 AM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Re: Seeding the OpenSSL PRNG (continued ...) > > Apparently, there a

Re: Seeding the OpenSSL PRNG (continued ...)

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Leunissen
Apparently, there are some situations where there is no entropy source to seed the OpenSSL PRNG. Is there a uniform way to detect that the OpenSSL PRNG has not been seeded? "Uniform" is uniform over the various platforms because I want to prevent that I need to check on a per platform basis wh