turn on protection against 'sudden death' from entropy failure
Bug #1191322 reported by
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pyOpenSSL |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
In the next release of openssl, there will be a new option to turn on protection against 'sudden death' from entropy failure:
http://
To enable it, you have to invoke a function, for example, if you invoke EC_KEY_
This ticket is to change pyOpenSSL to call that function before it does DSA or ECDSA signature operations, if the function is present in the version of OpenSSL.
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