Long startup time and poor entropy on Windows due to inefficient heap walking In RAND_poll()

Subject: Long startup time and poor entropy on Windows due to inefficient heap walking In RAND_poll()
From: rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx (Salz, Rich)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:45:06 +0000
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> The OpenSSL library developers might still want to consider alternate heap
> walk coding

See http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3594

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