* Thorsten Glaser:

>>Historically, the OpenSSL command line tools have been intended for
>>debugging only.
>
> I disagree,

It's what I was told by the OpenSSL developers.

> Also, what do other tools (that do not invoke openssl(1)
> unlike most of these I saw, which were shell wrappers
> around it) do, entropy-wise?

There are different choices.  Some use more bits from /dev/urandom,
some even block on /dev/random.  The latter is quite problematic for
non-interactive key generation during package isntallation.


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