Method CInit

src/util.cpp:106–126

{
public:
    CInit()
    {
        // Init OpenSSL library multithreading support
        ppmutexOpenSSL.reset(new CCriticalSection[CRYPTO_num_locks()]);
        CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(locking_callback);

        // OpenSSL can optionally load a config file which lists optional loadable modules and engines.
        // We don't use them so we don't require the config. However some of our libs may call functions
        // which attempt to load the config file, possibly resulting in an exit() or crash if it is missing
        // or corrupt. Explicitly tell OpenSSL not to try to load the file. The result for our libs will be
        // that the config appears to have been loaded and there are no modules/engines available.
        OPENSSL_no_config();

#ifdef WIN32
        // Seed OpenSSL PRNG with current contents of the screen
        RAND_screen();
#endif

        // Seed OpenSSL PRNG with performance counter
        RandAddSeed();
    }
    ~CInit()
    {
        // Securely erase the memory used by the PRNG