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Re: OpenSSL patch for Heimdal 0.3d

From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>

assar> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <levitte@stacken.kth.se> writes:
assar> > seems like the following places will be proposed (that's at least the
assar> > list of defaults we're putting in OpenSSL :-)):
assar> 
assar> But that means that libcrypto will get entropy from there by itself
assar> and there's no point in calling RAND_egd_bytes, right?

That's the purpose, yes.  That will be part of the upcoming 0.9.7
release (no, nothing is scheduled yet :-)).

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