On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>
> Did you specify "-rand /dev/urandom" on the command line?
> You MUST NOT do that. If you have /dev/urandom, the OpenSSL library and
> applications will silently query it for you.
> If you specify it on the command line, the "-rand" option tries to use
> the whole file, which is infinitely long, as you already found out :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Lutz
No I did not! The command was something like the following, which exactly shows
this behaviour:
openssl genrsa -out Key.pem 1024
Ciao,
Gerd
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