Re: Entrpoy and OpenSSL

2013-06-12 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 6/7/2013 1:17 PM, srikanth chakravarthula wrote: Hi Jakob, Thank you for your response. So If I understand, when genrsa or rand command is called, it uses the seeded random number from /dev/random or /dev/urandom and generates the key and then re-seeds the random bytes from the /dev/random o

Re: Entrpoy and OpenSSL

2013-06-07 Thread srikanth chakravarthula
Hi Jakob, Thank you for your response. So If I understand, when genrsa or rand command is called, it uses the seeded random number from /dev/random or /dev/urandom and generates the key and then re-seeds the random bytes from the /dev/random or/dev/urandom. And it will use the configrued RANDFIL

Re: Entrpoy and OpenSSL

2013-06-07 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 6/6/2013 4:57 AM, srikanth chakravarthula wrote: Hi I need help in openssl random seed genertion. We use the genrsa command to generate keys and certificates and we want to ensure the entropy of the random number being generated is having a high entropy. we need to know how does openssl whil

Entrpoy and OpenSSL

2013-06-05 Thread srikanth chakravarthula
Hi I need help in openssl random seed genertion. We use the genrsa command to generate keys and certificates and we want to ensure the entropy of the random number being generated is having a high entropy. we need to know how does openssl while genrting the key using the command genrsa will gener