RE: PRNG not seeded

["Cheng, Ted C" <Ted.Cheng@ca.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Cheng, Ted C wrote:

> 
> OpenSSL seems to indicate that this is the application's responsibility
> http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#6.
> 
> It also suggests that systems without /dev/urandom
> use the Entropy Gathering Daemon.
> 
> Is this what OpenLDAP recommends? If development work is
> needed, where should I look into?

On Monday, June 26, 2000 8:47 PM, Andrew D. Bialock wrote:

>Look at:

>http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html

>Step number 4 under "Initial Setup" talks about using EGD and/or 
>/dev/urandom.

Looks like similar work is needed for clients/slapd. I will look into this
one.

- Ted C. Cheng