The problem we had is people would compile OpenSSH dynamically against one
release of OpenSSL. And then attempt to run it on another box with a
different release of OpenSSL. Which causes a lot of unexplained problems
with OpenSSH failing randomly.
- Ben
On 27 Sep 2001, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Debian have #defined out this function in entropy.c for some time
> (since it causes things to break too often, given I don't maintain
> openssl). Does it serve a useful function security-wise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
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