> Does it mean that Openssl will try to seed by
> *itself* first when it is initialized, and this
> operation fails on PPC2003 because of not enough enthropy ?

        This is a user question, not a developer question and is on the wrong 
list.

        Yes, OpenSSL will try to seed itself using whatever sources of entropy 
it
can find on the system. But if the system doesn't have any, then this will
fail.

        DS


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