[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #1298] OpenSSL bug in libcrypto.so:RAND_poll() crashes apache2 @ startup

[Matt Caswell via RT]

On Mon May 09 15:05:32 2016, rsalz at akamai.com wrote:
> It's probably not an issue because the number of file descriptors has
> increased on the native O/S's. But "file descriptor exhaustion" is
> still an issue for RNG's (google it) and we should keep it in mind for
> the future. What's the best way to do that?

We should incorporate it into the requirements for when we do the RNG rewrite
(post 1.1.0). Perhaps a feature request gh issue?

Matt

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