Re: Thoughs on issue #1563: TTimo's stalling checkout.

Brian Denny <brian@briandenny.net> writes:
>
> > > If ephemeral keying is being used by SSL then it may need to draw more
> > > entropy as the connection proceeds. Fitz pointed out that OpenSSL uses
> > > /dev/random by default, not /dev/urandom.
> > >
>
> The OpenSSL FAQ says otherwise:
>
> All OpenSSL versions try to use /dev/urandom by default; starting with
> version 0.9.7, OpenSSL also tries /dev/random if /dev/urandom is not
> available.

Actually, I said that *APR* uses /dev/random by default.

-Fitz

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