[openssl-users] [openssl-dev] Do you need EGD support?

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Mon Jan 11 20:32:42 UTC 2016


>>Will you still support PRNGD?  I need PRNGD, as I’m on a platform without a built-in random device or cpu instructions.

> PRNGD is a direct replacement for EGD, so if the interface to EGD is removed from OpenSSL, PRNGD stops to work for it as well.

Thanks.  That means we should not remove it right away.  (Although perhaps we need only use it in the library, not the command-line?)


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