Alternative to -rand option for genpkey

Viktor Dukhovni openssl-users at dukhovni.org
Sat Jan 13 00:28:46 UTC 2024


On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 06:56:07PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> Lack of "-rand" support in genpkey is plausibly an oversight. Modulo
> the requisite documentation updates, the below patch adds the missing
> support:
> 
> --- a/apps/genpkey.c
> +++ b/apps/genpkey.c
> [...]

Opened a PR against the master branch:

    https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/23294

Less clear whether backports to stable branches are warranted, unless
lack of support is deemed a bug-fix rather than a new feature.

-- 
    Viktor.


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