do-rand-seed Function

Summary

Calls the SSL function RAND_seed. This should only be called when using the :openssl implementation.

Package

comm

Signature

do-rand-seed

Description

The function do-rand-seed calls the SSL function RAND_seed with some suitable value, which is dependent in a non-trivial way on the current time, the history of the current process and the history of the machine it is running on.

If the machine that it runs on has the file /dev/urandom, do-rand-seed does nothing.

See also

attach-ssl
25 TCP and UDP socket communication and SSL