[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#363516: The actual change

Richard Kettlewell rjk at greenend.org.uk
Wed May 14 09:44:03 UTC 2008


A couple of people have suggested I mention the change that was actually 
made.  These are the relevant URLs:

http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl?rev=141&view=rev
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&r1=140&r2=141

 > Does the whole openssl security rely on uninitialized memory ?
 >
 > If yes isn't this bloody naive ?
 >
 > Shouldn't openssl use /dev/random or stuff like this to get good
 > entropy ?

No openssl security does not "rely on uninitialized memory".  Take a few 
minutes to read the code.

ttfn/rjk





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