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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/06/2015 16:03, Salz, Rich wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<tt>While the original EGD is needed only on platforms with <br>
no platform-provided equivalent (such as /dev/*random or <br>
Microsoft CryptGenRandom()), it should be noted that a <br>
networked variant of the EGD protocol has been used by <br>
at least one hardware RNG vendor, though I am unsure if <br>
the builtin EGD code in OpenSSL could ever talk directly <br>
to that variant anyway.</tt><tt><br>
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<tt>Two other platforms I can think of as potentially affected <br>
are Solaris 2.4+ without the /dev/random patch and CE <br>
installations without MS CryptoAPI (this is the default <br>
for some CE 2.11 targets, and an option for any vendor <br>
configured CE installation of any version, including the <br>
latest ones, though that latter option might be as rare <br>
as building the Linux kernel without /dev/*random).<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Enjoy
Jakob
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