* 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.

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