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authorPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2019-08-30 07:29:35 +1000
committerPauli <paul.dale@oracle.com>2019-08-30 07:57:55 +1000
commitf493bd6f94c646ba1d96d95f4e5c2a828c668f42 (patch)
tree68fa77279ea3d48926e8d2362e9e22203264cd50 /CHANGES
parent51e236df41871871dabd2f5f7156e27a0eef3b3b (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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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.