Critical EGD handling in 2.1.1p1

[Lutz Jaenicke]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:58:32PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Attached is a diff against 2.1.1p1 which reworks the EGD handling
> > code a bit. 
> 
> In the grand tradition of replying to one's own post - here is a
> better (i.e not broken) patch.
> 
> The previous patch didn't handle error conditions correctly - it
> would erroneously increase the entropy estimate in OpenSSL's pool by
> RAND_add()ing an non-populated buffer.

Thanks,

this increased the reliability of openssh (with EGD support) quite
a bit :-)

Best regards,
	Lutz
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