[ipxe-devel] ssl and efi?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Wed Oct 23 14:01:13 UTC 2013


On 23/10/13 00:37, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> I was digging in and just wanted to confirm, there's currently no viable
> get_noise provider for SSL to work when compiled as efi?
>
> For reference, I am hitting:
> http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/blob/master:/src/crypto/entropy.c#l123
>
> Working backwards my guess was that the only get_noise that would be
> happy was the one in rtc_entropy and I'm further presuming that has no
> bearing on efi...

Correct.  I haven't looked into possible sources of entropy under EFI 
yet; any suggestions?

Michael



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