OpenSSL is a wonderful library. I have had much fun learning from it. I am running it from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98. Recently, I grew annoyed, enough, to make a small fix located in read_pwd.c. The symptom: When using genrsa to build an RSA key, after entering the pass-phrase for the second time, I would often see the error: fgets(tty): Invalid argument. genrsa would function properly, and my pass-phrase appeared to be read from the keyboard correctly. A quick look at the code identifies the source of the message near the bottom of des_read_pw() located within read_pwd.c. This problem, by no means, is a show stopper. There does seem to be, however, an easy fix. The fix: There is an "ok" flag being set, upon successful read and comparison of the two passwords. Though incomplete, at the very least, use of this flag may be used as a conditional to the possibility of an error message on fgets(). Thus, by adding the conditional between lines 361 & 362, the console output is improved. 359: error: 360: fprintf(stderr,"\n"); 361: #ifdef DEBUG + if (!ok) 362: perror("fgets(tty)"); 363: #endif The comment: I suspect there are differences in the c-runtime implementation of perror(). The platform I am running OpenSLL from is WIN32, Windoze 98. I suspect there is a flaw in the perror() implementation, and providing the conditional on its call, may be more fo a bandaid than a real fix. Just the same, I contribute it here, though, small the contribution is. Enjoy. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]