From 0983760dfce8f6accfa257163dcfce9624dce373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bodo=20M=C3=B6ller?= <bodo@openssl.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:20:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] note about things still to do with RAND_bytes

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 CHANGES | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 48053f2201..326b5cf7a1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@
  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,
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