From fbbc137e481f092be7bdc3fedb505f5c2d89eba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deraadt <>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:45:38 +0000
Subject: So the OpenSSL codebase does "get the time, add it as a random seed"
 in a bunch of places inside the TLS engine, to try to keep entropy high. I
 wonder if their moto is "If you can't solve a problem, at least try to do it
 badly". ok miod

---
 src/lib/libcrypto/bn/bn_rand.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/lib/libcrypto')

diff --git a/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/bn_rand.c b/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/bn_rand.c
index b376c28ff3..5cbb1f33c1 100644
--- a/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/bn_rand.c
+++ b/src/lib/libcrypto/bn/bn_rand.c
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ static int bnrand(int pseudorand, BIGNUM *rnd, int bits, int top, int bottom)
 	{
 	unsigned char *buf=NULL;
 	int ret=0,bit,bytes,mask;
-	time_t tim;
 
 	if (bits == 0)
 		{
@@ -139,8 +138,6 @@ static int bnrand(int pseudorand, BIGNUM *rnd, int bits, int top, int bottom)
 		}
 
 	/* make a random number and set the top and bottom bits */
-	time(&tim);
-	RAND_add(&tim,sizeof(tim),0.0);
 
 	if (pseudorand)
 		{
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