Re: https schema

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:39:40AM +0100, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> When trying to specify https: as the schema for repository access, svn
> gives this error message:
>
> svn_error: #21075 : <RA layer's server request failed>
> neon: Could not negotiate SSL session: PRNG not seeded
>
> Is "seeding the PRNG" (whatever that means) a task for the user, for
> ra_dav, or someone else?

Are you on Solaris? This typically occurs when OpenSSL is used on
a platform without /dev/(u)random. OpenSSL requires an external
source of entropy on these platforms.

We have some code in flood that will seed OpenSSL's PRNG with
some cheesy stuff based on stack variables/timings. I guess
we could try something similar with neon. -- justin

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