On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, John Boocock wrote:
> I have actually have a similar problem also under UnixWare 7.1.1 nsc using
>
> egd 0.8
> openssl 0.9.6
>
> Creating self signed test certificates seems to work however if I run the
> following nothing appears to happen:
>
> /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl genrsa -des3 -rand /etc/entropy 1024 > test.key
I tried the above with /var/run/egd-pool and I got the same message about
random state.
> if -rand is specified as a normal file however this works fine
>
> Something's obviously worked at some point though as there is a file called
> ~/.rand that contains a load of very random looking info and the file size
> is 1024.
>
> EGD appears to be working, is this maybe a porting problem with UnixWare
> 7.1.1, SCO said that they can help us out on the issue however I'm not too
> familiar myself with all this OpenSSL / cryptography stuff and don't want to
> waste their time solving something that turns out to be an oversight on my
> part....
I decided to go with prngd-0.9.3 because of the problems mentioned on the
egd site. I know there is data because I can use egc.pl and dump it as
per the instructions for prngd.
Thanks,
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