[ntp:bugs] [Bug 649] ntp shouln't need $HOME/.rnd if /dev/*random is available

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Additional Comments From ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Rainer Orth)
Submitted on 2006-06-21 17:20

Subject: ntp shouln't need $HOME/.rnd if /dev/*random is available

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> Additional Comments From mayer at ntp.org (Danny Mayer)
> Submitted on 2006-06-20 11:41
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> You shouldn't make any assumptions on this. OpenSSL has it's own needs. I wrote

Exactly, and the OpenSSL apps code I referred to shows exactly how this
should be handled to cope with systems with and without /dev/*random, those
with egd, and others which need $RANDFILE.

> up a description about this from the NTP point of view in the winnt.html file.
> You cannot just eliminate this. As I recall, .rnd just helps seed the
> initialization call.

I don't intend to eliminate it completely, only on platforms where it is
unnecessary.  I'd suppose that the OpenSSL developers know the proper way
to handle this, and ntp should follow this lead.

	Rainer


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Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>



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