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2014 Jul 12
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openssh portable and libressl portable cause recursion between arc4random and RAND_bytes
Hi,
Yesterday I tried to replace the system openssl in a gentoo system with
libressl.
With openssh an interesting issue popped up:
* RAND_bytes in libressl calls arc4random
* arc4random is a compat function both in openssh and libressl
* arc4random from openssh uses RAND_bytes
So what's happening is a recursion. arc4random wants to use RAND_bytes
and RAND_bytes wants to use arc4random. The