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note about things still to do with RAND_bytes

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Bodo Möller 2000-01-13 21:20:26 +00:00
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Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 [xx XXX 1999]
*) Precautions against using the PRNG uninitialized: RAND_bytes() now
has a return value which indicated the quality of the random data
(1 = ok, 0 = not seeded).
has a return value which indicates the quality of the random data
(1 = ok, 0 = not seeded). Also an error is recorded on the thread's
error queue.
(TO DO: always check the result of RAND_bytes when it is used in the
library, because leaving the error in the error queue but reporting
success in a function that uses RAND_bytes could confuse things
considerably.)
[Ulf Möller]
*) Do more iterations of Rabin-Miller probable prime test (specifically,