Just figured out why I stopped being able to produce the problem after
switching to Win2000.
in the openssl-snap-20000919\out32dll directory after a successful
execution on Win2000 or Win98 there will be produced a .rnd file
if the .rnd file exist the error is not reported, if the file
is deleted the error is reported.
Loading 'screen' into random state - done
unable to load 'random state'
Now this indicates that the problem is only being noticed in the
'x509' command because only that command in the test calls
app_RAND_load_file(). In that situation the value of entropy in
ssleay_rand_status() is 4 after RAND_poll() has been called twice.
Now, this is one of those situations where RAND_poll() is called twice
because it is first called as part of RAND_screen() but the call via
RAND_screen() can not set the 'initialized' flag used within
crypto/rand/md_rand.c because that flag is static.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
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