[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#922732: Bug#922732: openssl: ~/.rnd (RANDFILE) ignored

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2019-02-19 23:10:40 [+0000], Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> When I do “openssl rand 4 | hd”, the file ~/.rnd is ignored
> (judging from its tiestamp and md5sum, it’s not rewritten,
> and probably not read either) despite me adding the line
> 
> 	RANDFILE		= $ENV::HOME/.rnd
> 
> to openssl.cnf as described in config(5).

So what do we do here? The file, that is specified as RANDFILE here, was
used more often in earlier releases. Currently it is seeded via
getrandom() and the file is hardly used. Therefore it is mostly ignored.

Can this be closed or do you expect something else?

Sebastian