[openssl-users] Openssl and floating point

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Sat Aug 13 02:04:57 UTC 2016


> I wouldn't go near deciding what "I don't care about".  There is history to
> non-experts #ifdef'ing out code in the random number generator and it
> didn't go well.  :-(

True :)

The parameter here is a user-supplied measure of the entropy being added.  You can fix it to an integral constant appropriate for your platform.

There's really no need for it to be floating-point.  Oh well.


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