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author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2019-08-30 07:29:35 +1000 |
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committer | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2019-08-30 07:57:55 +1000 |
commit | f493bd6f94c646ba1d96d95f4e5c2a828c668f42 (patch) | |
tree | 68fa77279ea3d48926e8d2362e9e22203264cd50 /CHANGES | |
parent | 51e236df41871871dabd2f5f7156e27a0eef3b3b (diff) |
Fix NITs in comments and CHANGES for DEVRANDOM seeded check.
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9734)
(cherry picked from commit 46a9cc9451213039fd53f62733b2ccd04e853bb2)
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ Changes between 1.1.1c and 1.1.1d [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been + improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for + /dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom. + The seeded state is stored for future library initialisations using + a system global shared memory segment. The shared memory identifier + can be configured by defining OPENSSL_RAND_SEED_DEVRANDOM_SHM_ID to + the desired value. The default identifier is 114. + [Paul Dale] + *) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for /dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom. |