[ssh bug 115767] mips and randomness
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Hi folks,
Below follows some interaction I had with upstream with regards this
bug against ssh (on mips). Can any of you shed any light on this? (an
answer to the question would be a good start :).
Thanks,
Matthew
On 1 Dec 2001, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There seems to be a problem with the arc4random code on mips/mipsel,
> producing the following error message:
>
> Couldn't obtain random bytes (error 604389476)
That error is caused because an OpenSSL RAND_bytes() call is failing.
You need to investiagte why that is happening. Does the MIPS have
/dev/urandom?
-d
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