SSL still broken on Solaris ?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Philippe Bredel wrote
> Hi,
> 
>   A few months ago I was looking at SSL support in Python and decided
> to go back to this project yesterday. I was rather surprised to
> discover that socketmodule.c still doesn't call RAND_seed() despite
> the fact that the issue had been mentionned in earlier posts.
>   I was initially using 1.5.2 on SunOS5.6, assumed it had been fixed
> so downloaded 2.2.1, recompiled w/ SSL support (I'm using openssl
> 0.9.6) and kept on getting the famous PRNG not seeded error message. I
> eventually found a post from Dave Beazley with his fix but the whole
> process was really painful.
>   There's a usable /dev/random file on my box but I just made a
> "dirty" recompile using a fixed seed to make sure it was fixing the
> problem.

Have you logged a bug on sourceforge? If not, it's less likely that
this will be fixed...


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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.