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authorDimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk>2024-07-11 13:36:31 +0200
committerPauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com>2024-07-31 06:44:51 +0200
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JITTER: excercise all tests in CI with JITTER seed source under certain build configuration
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/24844)
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@@ -1326,6 +1326,11 @@ All operations depending on the random generator such as creating keys
will not work unless the random generator is seeded manually by the
application.
+Alternative to manually seeding is to compile with JITTER RNG enabled,
+it will be used instead of rand-seed=none. Or specify alternative
+seed= provider in openssl.cnf (for example from a 3rd party entropy
+provider).
+
Please read the 'Note on random number generation' section in the
INSTALL.md instructions and the RAND_DRBG(7) manual page for more
details.