I apolozige I'm a newbie. This is my first request and I've gone fairly far on reading the documentation I have found. I have totally gotten Apache up on mod_SSL and am trying to get openssl to work. It works....I only have one stumbing block concerning the -rand functionality.
the details: Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000 i586 unknown Apache/1.3.12 10312100 OpenSSL 0.9.6a 5 Apr 2001 I'm having trouble with the -rand command...I'm missing a critical piece of information which I have not been able to figure out on my own. Whenever I use the -rand modifier, my terminal just sits there and hangs - I guess on the random number generator. I type the following. openssl genrsa -rand /dev/urandom -out www.domain.com.key 1024 it hangs... This command information was gotten from Thawte. If I type this: openssl genrsa -out www.domain.com.key 1024 everything works but it complains about the random number generator not being properly seeded. Thawte told me that I could create an encrypted key....However, I plain on this being a virtual servers with multiple SSL's and I don't want to keep track of every username/password and then have to remember them just to boot up which is what I was warned would happen from Thawte. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? URANDOM: I log in as root, but the files in /dev are hidden from me. There seems to be a file called urandom there though. Sending the command as -rand /dev/urandom is what is specified by thawte. Is there a different way you would recommend seeding the crypto library. I apologize but I'm definetly a newbie at this. Thank You very much. Mike b. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
