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authorKurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>2018-03-08 22:30:28 +0100
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2018-03-19 15:04:40 +0100
commit16cfc2c90d9e7776965db07c1f31bbec2f6c41e3 (patch)
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parent7caf122e717e79afcb986fe217e77a630b67bf4c (diff)
Don't use a ssl specific DRBG anymore
Since the public and private DRBG are per thread we don't need one per ssl object anymore. It could also try to get entropy from a DRBG that's really from an other thread because the SSL object moved to an other thread. Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5547)
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@@ -457,20 +457,6 @@ This call is only valid when decrypting data.
=back
-=head1 Random numbers
-
-The following can be used to select the DRBG that is used to generate the random
-numbers:
-
-EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_SET_DRBG, 0, drbg)
-
-The following can be used to get the DRBG:
-
-EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_GET_DRBG, 0, &drbg)
-
-By default it's set to NULL which results in RAND_bytes() being used.
-
-
=head1 NOTES
Where possible the B<EVP> interface to symmetric ciphers should be used in