Using -lssh as shared library

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> > from arc4random() should be made global and available from
> > seed_rng() as well (this last point isn't obvious, as it
> > will stop calling seed_rgn() more than once if *required*).
> 
> Damien, can we just remove seed_rng() from arc4random?  We are doing
> seed_rng() in every major binary that requires entropy collection (except
> for ssh-keyscan.c which we need to add it to now).  I know we needed this
> when we first started, but I think (from glancing at the code) it is now
> dead wood.  I would prefer that than sprinkling portable code around more.

You can if you can make sure that the arc4 prng gets seeded with good 
entropy. I think OpenSSL provides a way to do that.

-d

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