/dev/urandom|random and Solaris

[Kevin Steves]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:52:30PM -0400, Ed Phillips wrote:
> > But the configuration script under Solaris (Sparc/X86) does not test the
> > existing of the devices... is this to be known as a error/bug? and is
> > there a patch?
> 
> It doesn't need to... the OpenSSL code uses /dev/urandom if it exists.
> If you want to change to /dev/random, you have to edit the code (look for
> DEVRANDOM in the source).
> 
> With OpenSSH, you should use the configuration options to disable the
> OpenSSH-supplied entropy gathering stuff (--with-rand-helper=no?).

You don't need to do that.  configure will figure out if OpenSSL
can see itself.

configure should then display:
              Random number source: OpenSSL internal ONLY