Re: [Dovecot] OpenSSL on AIX

On Tue Jun 24, 2003 at 17:41:06 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

How does EGD work? It listens in /tmp/something? But .. hmh. I don't know.

The daemon provides a socket where applications can get entropy from.

I'd guess you need the randomness in any case. Should I just add extra code to feed OpenSSL's PRNG from specified file (device/socket/etc)?

Looks like that. Other projects which support egd have extra code for the RAND_*egd* functions.

Thanks, Adam

Adam adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de Lackorzynski http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/