/dev/urandom|random and Solaris

[Luc I. Suryo]

> 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

correct, my fault i did not look closer it says OpenSSL and NOT OpenSSH
and OpenSSL was compiled with /dev/urandom support :)

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Kind regards,
Luc Suryo