[Dovecot] OpenSSL on AIX

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 24 18:21:05 EEST 2003


On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:14:08PM +0200, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> > 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.

       OpenSSL automatically queries EGD when entropy is requested via
       RAND_bytes() or the status is checked via RAND_status() for the first
       time, if the socket is located at /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool or
       /etc/egd-pool.

You don't have it in any of those?



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