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Re: [neon] Re: https schema

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2001-12-14 19:53:08 CET

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:
> SSL is cryptography, and the SSL engine needs a good random seed to act good.
> On systems without a /dev/urandom (such as Solaris), you need to be able to
> specify your own random source, like a file name with random data or an EGD
> socket.
>
> This same problem was recently just fixed in wget (GPL licensed) and I have
> written code that seeds the SSL engine in curl (MIT licensed). Getting
> inspiration from an already written solution is easy.
>
> I'm willing to donate code if need be.

Great!

Architecturally, I'm a little unclear: should this go in Subversion,
or in Neon?

-K

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