Re: SSL (patch 5)

Bear, can you confirm that this patch should be rejected and that
hopefully the SSL library will handle it in the future?

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Bear Giles wrote:
> Patch to add initialization from entropy source, either a
> file ($HOME/.postgresql/.rand, $DataDir/.rand) or the
> /dev/urandom device.
>
> This is intended to reduce the ability of an attacker to
> predict our "random" keys.
>
> The random file can be generated with the OpenSSL command:
> openssl rand -out .rand 1024.
>
> Bear

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