[Bug 1701] FIPS-140-2 requires call to RAND_cleanup() before the program using RAND exits

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Fri Mar 26 11:37:58 EST 2010


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Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> 2010-03-26 11:37:57 EST ---
Is RAND_cleanup() signal-safe?  (I suspect not, and if it's not then
this potentially opens a signal race vulnerability in sshd, which is
the reason why all use of atexit was removed from OpenSSH previously.)

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