* Simon Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 19:44]: > Two things occur to me; it's waiting for you to enter a password to > protect the key, as the process is bg it's blocked. The other thing that > can occur (very rarely) on linux is that the urandom system is not > getting enough entropy to generate random numbers needed by OpenSSL. > [...]
A little correction: If there is no entropy left, /dev/urandom returns calculated data. It's /dev/random, which blocks. More information can be found in man 4 random. Greets, Matth�us Wander.
