From: damien <damien>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:43:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clarify requirement for egd
X-Git-Tag: V_2_0_0_TEST1~2
X-Git-Url: http://andersk.mit.edu/gitweb/openssh.git/commitdiff_plain/72567c57477fe7b46aa3de250a13c7eb8bd857ac

clarify requirement for egd
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 616b9a0f..76b85d6d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL.
 Zlib:
 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
 
-OpenSSL:
+OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater:
 http://www.openssl.org/
 
 RPMs of OpenSSL are available in the support/ directory of the OpenSSH 
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ passphrase requester. This is maintained separately at:
 http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/software/x11-ssh-askpass/index.html
 
 If you are planning to use OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a Kernel random
-number generator (/dev/urandom), you will need to install the Entropy
+number generator (/dev/urandom), you may want to install the Entropy
 Gathering Daemon (or similar). You will also need to specify the 
---with-egd-pool option to ./configure.
+--with-egd-pool option to ./configure. OpenSSH 2.0 includes some 
+peliminary built-in randomness collection, but it is not as well 
+tested as EGD.
 
 EGD:
 http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ random numbers (the default is /dev/urandom). Unless you are absolutly
 sure of what you are doing, it is best to leave this alone.
 
 --with-egd-pool=/some/file allows you to enable Entropy Gathering
-Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You will need to
+Daemon support and to specify a EGD pool socket. You may want to
 use this if your Unix does not support the /dev/urandom device (or
 similar). The file argument refers to the EGD pool file, not the 
 EGD program itself. Please refer to the EGD documentation.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 450d81c5..eaacfc54 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ all logins, not just when using password authentication.
 OpenSSH depends on Zlib[2], OpenSSL[3] and optionally PAM[4] and
 Dante[6]. To build the GNOME[5] pass-phrase requester
 (--with-gnome-askpass), you will need the GNOME libraries installed.
-If you are building OpenSSH on a Unix which lacks a kernel random
-number pool (/dev/random), you will need to install EGD[1]. 
 
 There is now several mailing lists for this port of OpenSSH. Please
 refer to http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/list.html for details on how