Commit 0983760d authored by Bodo Möller's avatar Bodo Möller
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note about things still to do with RAND_bytes

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 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5  [xx XXX 1999]

  *) Precautions against using the PRNG uninitialized: RAND_bytes() now
     has a return value which indicated the quality of the random data
     (1 = ok, 0 = not seeded).
     has a return value which indicates the quality of the random data
     (1 = ok, 0 = not seeded).  Also an error is recorded on the thread's
     error queue.
     (TO DO: always check the result of RAND_bytes when it is used in the
     library, because leaving the error in the error queue but reporting
     success in a function that uses RAND_bytes could confuse things
     considerably.)
     [Ulf Möller]

  *) Do more iterations of Rabin-Miller probable prime test (specifically,