[openssl-users] [openssl-dev] Do you use EGD or PRNGD?

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Mon Jun 1 18:33:01 UTC 2015


> While HP NonStop is not officially supported, I have been helping to maintain
> a fork for the platform since December and are current through 1.0.2a. We
> do use prngd. I am looking for ways to get back on the official platform list,
> looking for alternatives to prngd for that platform, and trying get vendor by-
> in in this area.

Thanks for the info.

One possibility is to have a separate program use prngd and write it to a RANDFILE that openssl uses.  Probably servers are the most important users, and you could/should have one file per server ...


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