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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2008-03-21 19:18:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2008-03-21 19:18:57 +0000 |
| commit | b5b77f8bf37a193f23c5b68f688f6175266a612f (patch) | |
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| parent | 64f38f217ae21eaa00b48749353dad62cfcb72c6 (diff) | |
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r19004@catbus: nickm | 2008-03-21 15:18:43 -0400
Use RAND_poll() again: the bug that made us stop using it has been fixed.
svn:r14150
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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-??-?? - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3, and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under GCC 4.3. + - Start using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable) + cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then + stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that called + RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the bug got + fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll() at + startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if we + have a non-buggy OpenSSL version. o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Refactor code using connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() to |