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Compiling 3.5p1 against /dev/random -- OpenSSL-0.9.6g

From: Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. <wally.winzer(at)ChampUSA.COM>
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 05:45:15 EST


I've restructured OpenSSL-0.9.6b to use /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom. I know this to be true because I ran strings against the libcrypto shared lib, and /dev/random was incorporated successfully. When I run configure it finds all the OpenSSL variants, but for some strange reason it's not using /dev/random, instead it wants to use ssh-rand-helper instead. The INSTALL file indicates in order to use /dev/random OpenSSL has to be configured this way. It is. Why is it OpenSSH still wants to use ssh-rand-helper instead? If anyone has any clues I appreciate it. When I do the build and strings sshd it definitely shows ssh-rand-helper.

Thanks.

Wally Winzer Jr. Received on Fri Nov 15 22:47:05 2002

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