Changes between 1.1.1c and 1.1.1d [xx XXX xxxx]
+ *) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
+ improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for
+ /dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom.
+ The seeded state is stored for future library initialisations using
+ a system global shared memory segment. The shared memory identifier
+ can be configured by defining OPENSSL_RAND_SEED_DEVRANDOM_SHM_ID to
+ the desired value. The default identifier is 114.
+ [Paul Dale]
+
*) Early start up entropy quality from the DEVRANDOM seed source has been
improved for older Linux systems. The RAND subsystem will wait for
/dev/random to be producing output before seeding from /dev/urandom.
fd_set fds;
if (!seeded) {
- /* See if anthing has created the global seeded indication */
+ /* See if anything has created the global seeded indication */
if ((shm_id = shmget(OPENSSL_RAND_SEED_DEVRANDOM_SHM_ID, 1, 0)) == -1) {
/*
* Check the kernel's version and fail if it is too recent.
close(fd);
if (r == 1) {
seeded = 1;
- /* Craete the shared memory indicator */
+ /* Create the shared memory indicator */
shm_id = shmget(OPENSSL_RAND_SEED_DEVRANDOM_SHM_ID, 1,
IPC_CREAT | S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
}