[Dovecot] OpenSSL on AIX

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:49:53PM +0200, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> with current test releases SSL doesn't work anymore for me on AIX 4.3
> with dovecot-0.99.10-test14. It worked with 0.99.9.1.
> 
> imap-login: Jun 23 19:42:25 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed: error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded
> 
> AIX doesn't have /dev/u?random, so I don't know if that could be the
> culprit. EGD would be available though.

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