[stunnel-users] Help please - debug and random file

Mon Oct 2 23:31:37 CEST 2006

Mike,

Ah -- you are an expert!  Amazing product in that I last download 
this in 2000 and have used it without incident ever since.  Too bad I 
am forced to upgrade.

I have hunted down the problem some more -- it has to do with the randomness.

Using dbx I have found that it is blocking on a socked read for 
DEVRANDOM_EGD ... I did not specifically set up any sockets for 
randomness anyplace.  Or set any options.  I don't really want a 
socket, I was perfectly happy with my little 1024 byte .rnd file.

If I copy a file (at random :-) ) and specify that it use that file 
for randomness, it reads it and sets it to zero bytes (unless I tell 
it not to overwrite).  It then goes to read the socket and hangs.

I suspect this is more an openssl problem than stunnel unless you can 
think of a way to 1) make it not wipe out my random file   2) make it 
not try and access a socket

I hope you put my little fix in to s_log.

Thanks,

Eric

At 01:51 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote:
>On Monday 02 October 2006 21:19, you wrote:
> > Are you an openssl/stunnel expert?
>
>I wrote stunnel.  I could say I'm an expert (who an expert is otherwise?).
>
> > If I gave you access to my rs6000
> > and paid you, could you get this to work for me?  Since I only need
> > to compil this every 5-10 years, it makes little sense for me to
> > invest a lot of time learning it!
>
>Good idea.
>
>Best regards,
>     Mike
>

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