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authorRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2017-06-26 12:02:57 -0400
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2017-06-27 12:14:49 -0400
commitf367ac2b2664df272aa1903c7650f0c64f539d28 (patch)
tree654388ca91eb1a89173546d83bc413322f706e8f /apps/app_rand.c
parentc91ec013654e97ca1754db26bd2da62c8bbf7b47 (diff)
Use randomness not entropy
Reviewed-by: Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/3773)
Diffstat (limited to 'apps/app_rand.c')
-rw-r--r--apps/app_rand.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/apps/app_rand.c b/apps/app_rand.c
index 8a85cc9114..21445ac0f9 100644
--- a/apps/app_rand.c
+++ b/apps/app_rand.c
@@ -93,13 +93,14 @@ int app_RAND_write_file(const char *file)
{
char buffer[200];
- if (egdsocket || !seeded)
+ if (egdsocket || !seeded) {
/*
- * If we did not manage to read the seed file, we should not write a
- * low-entropy seed file back -- it would suppress a crucial warning
- * the next time we want to use it.
+ * If we didn't manage to read the seed file, don't write a
+ * file out -- it would suppress a crucial warning the next
+ * time we want to use it.
*/
return 0;
+ }
if (file == NULL)
file = RAND_file_name(buffer, sizeof buffer);