path to find ssh-rand-helper

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Tue Apr 2 13:22:12 EST 2002


PRNGD/EGD is supported by OpenSSL also.  Therefor if you teach OpenSSL how
to talk to PRNGG/EGD  ssh-rand-helper is not required.

- Ben

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Ben Lindstrom <mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org> said:
> > I would personally rather seen a nice clearly documented mini-howto or FAQ
> > entry explaning how to setup prng or egd w/ OpenSSL.  That way
> > ssh-rand-helper is not ran since OpenSSL can internally sead itself.
>
> The PRNGD/EGD code was moved into ssh-rand-helper, so if you don't have
> a kernel entropy device, ssh-rand-helper is required.
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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