path to find ssh-rand-helper

Lutz Jaenicke Lutz.Jaenicke at aet.TU-Cottbus.DE
Tue Apr 2 19:57:36 EST 2002


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:22:12PM -0600, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> PRNGD/EGD is supported by OpenSSL also.  Therefor if you teach OpenSSL how
> to talk to PRNGG/EGD  ssh-rand-helper is not required.

The automated query of PRNGD/EGD (at predefined locations) by OpenSSL's PRNG
functions is only implemented as of the not-yet released 0.9.7 version.
0.9.6x will not automatically query PRNGD/EGD.

Best regards,
	Lutz
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