Mark Kane wrote:
Hi everyone. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I tried to search
and didn't come up with much.
This has happened on a few servers I have tried to generate RSA keys on.
The command I am using is:
openssl genrsa -aes256 -rand /dev/urandom -out servername.privkey 4096
On some servers it goes fine and generates pretty quickly. On a few of
them like one I am trying today, I hit enter on that command and it just
sits there. There is no "Generating Key.........+........+++........++"
or whatever the normal output looks like. Just a blank line after my
command.
If I let it run, it seems it would sit there forever. I let another
server run the same command for over an hour and I came back to nothing.
The "servername.privkey" file is also blank if I look at it.
This particular one I'm trying today is on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE running
OpenSSL 0.9.7c. Others have been running on Linux and some have had the
same result.
Thanks in advance.
-Mark
Hmm, tried with /dev/random and it worked.
-Mark
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