Re: SSL (patch 5) - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: SSL (patch 5)
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0205272215290.2460-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to SSL (patch 5)  (Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com>)
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Bear Giles writes:

> Patch to add initialization from entropy source, either a
> file ($HOME/.postgresql/.rand, $DataDir/.rand) or the
> /dev/urandom device.

I seem to recall that OpenSSL handles generating appropriate randomness
itself.  So far we've reject these kinds of attempts to do it ourselves.
How does it work now?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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