* 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org