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Bodo Möller
2003-02-04 12:57:37 +00:00
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@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Cryptographic software needs a source of unpredictable data to work
correctly. Many open source operating systems provide a "randomness
device" (/dev/urandom or /dev/random) that serves this purpose.
All OpenSSL versions try to use /dev/urandom by default; starting with
version 0.9.7, OpenSSL also tries /dev/random is /dev/urandom is not
version 0.9.7, OpenSSL also tries /dev/random if /dev/urandom is not
available.
On other systems, applications have to call the RAND_add() or