openssh unix dev - Sep 2002 - [Bug 398] OpenSSL build mech. doesn't acknowledge /dev/random in Solaris

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398

mouring at eviladmin.org changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID



------- Additional Comments From mouring at eviladmin.org  2002-09-18 01:02
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Please recompile OpenSSL to understand where your /dev/random device is.  



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------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2002-09-18 01:23 -------
When configure says "Random number source: OpenSSL internal ONLY" it
means that
it's using /dev/urandom.  "Random number source: ssh-rand-helper"
is the
external entropy collector.

Regardless, the openssl libraries will use /dev/urandom if it exists.  (You may 
need to recompile openssl, but I don't think so).  From openssl's e_os.h
(typo
and all :-) :

#ifndef DEVRANDOM
/* set this to your 'random' device if you have one.
 * My default, we will try to read this file */
#define DEVRANDOM "/dev/urandom"
#endif

For maximum portability, when building packages I use "./configure 
--with-rand-helper".  That way /dev/urandom will be used if it exists, but
if it
doesn't then the random helper will be used.  This lets us use the same
binaries
on machines with and without the /dev/random patch.



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