Announce: Test release with random collection support

[Ben Lindstrom]

Ermm.. Nevermind.. Thanks Brian Carrier.  I was still running 0.9.4
on the next box.

Compiles and seems to work just fine.. Or at least as well as it did
before.

On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

> [On NeXT]
> 
> Ermm.. Where are RAND_add()/RAND_status() suppost to be defined?  
> 
> I don't see them as part of the OpenSSL headers, nor part of the OpenSSH
> package.
> 
> -- Compile Error --
> [..]
> cc -o ssh ssh.o sshconnect.o log-client.o readconf.o clientloop.o -L.
> -L/usr/lo
> cal/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/ssl -lssh -lz  -lcrypto
> /bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _RAND_add
> _RAND_status
> *** Exit 1
> Stop.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have just uploaded a test release of portable openssh to
> > http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/test
> > 
> > This release includes some major changes picked up from OpenBSD CVS.
> > 
> > It also includes inbuilt random number gathering support which should
> > remove the need for EGD on systems that lack /dev/random.
> > 
> > This support is very preliminary. Please treat it as alpha and don't
> > use it on production systems. It may break, it may not be secure.  You
> > have been warned.
> > 
> > The goal of this release is to get these large code changes tested.
> > Please send the output of "ssh -v" to the mailing list if your system
> > lacks /dev/random.
> > 
> > I am also interested in more random sources, please have a look
> > through entropy.c at the big table and see if you can suggest that are
> > specific to your system.
> > 
> > Good random sources should return a moderate amounts of very
> > unpredictable data and shouldn't take long to execute. Be wary of
> > commands that do implicit DNS lookups which can take ages to complete.
> > 
> > Looking forward to your feedback,
> > Damien Miller
> > 
> > --
> > | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox
> > | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/
> > | Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work)
> > 
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