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-----Original Message-----
From: Shea Janet B CRBE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:39 AM
To: 'Michael S. Tan'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: PRNG problems on Solaris 7 sparc
I finally got the RSA key generated! From there, I was finally able to create my PKI certificate request, which was submitted this morning.
I have tried lots of variations in trying to get to this point. Among the things I tried was using the openssl package from Sunfreeware.com, using different versions of openssl, variations of pointing to /dev/random .... All of these would fail at the point of generating the RSA key.
The solution that finally succeded was to install EGD (from http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ ), then start it up with the command: /usr/local/bin/egd.pl /etc/entropy Once enough entropy had gathered, I was able to generate the key with the command: openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key -rand /etc/entropy 1024
Thank you for your help, everyone! Your pointers for command lines to try really helped.
Janet Shea
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. Tan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:PRNG problems on Solaris 7 sparc
Hi Janet,
how is your progress coming along?
have you tried using a third party PRNG like ocotillo?
(http://ocotillo.sourceforge.net/). I'm going to be building a similar
box in the near future (same platform) and will use this PRNG as a test.
I'll let you know how it goes...
-mike
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