[ssh bug 115767] mips and randomness

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

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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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