krb5_abortx()

Love Hörnquist Åstrand lha at kth.se
Mon Jun 18 02:43:12 GMT 2007


>> What should I use for a random source on those platforms without / 
>> dev/
>> *random to generate cryptographic keys ?
>>
>> I can use the old method from libdes that fell out when I
>> restructured the random code, but its questionable if that is really
>> secure, it "works" though.
>
> Perhaps allow the app to supply a random callback?  (At least then it
> can be just as bad as samba without /dev/random).

That is just fine, when flying home I though I could port the old code
but never enable it in the core distribution and have you add the
RAND_method if you wanted that stuff.

What random source does samba4 use for crypto keys ?

Love




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