On 01/06/2015 16:03, Salz, Rich wrote: > > We are thinking of removing support for EGD (entropy-gathering daemon) > in the next release. None of our supported platforms have needed it > for some time. If this will cause an issue for you, please reply soon. > While the original EGD is needed only on platforms with no platform-provided equivalent (such as /dev/*random or Microsoft CryptGenRandom()), it should be noted that a networked variant of the EGD protocol has been used by at least one hardware RNG vendor, though I am unsure if the builtin EGD code in OpenSSL could ever talk directly to that variant anyway. Two other platforms I can think of as potentially affected are Solaris 2.4+ without the /dev/random patch and CE installations without MS CryptoAPI (this is the default for some CE 2.11 targets, and an option for any vendor configured CE installation of any version, including the latest ones, though that latter option might be as rare as building the Linux kernel without /dev/*random). Enjoy Jakob -- Jakob Bohm, CIO, Partner, WiseMo A/S. http://www.wisemo.com Transformervej 29, 2860 S?borg, Denmark. Direct +45 31 13 16 10 This public discussion message is non-binding and may contain errors. WiseMo - Remote Service Management for PCs, Phones and Embedded -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/attachments/20150601/10cedea6/attachment.html>
