On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:17:17 -0600, Mitchel, Jennifer (Jem) wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I got my openssl 0.9.6g installed today. i am brand new to this so i am a
>bit concerned about the timeframe here.
>
>I entered the command
>
>genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
>
>and i got the PRNG not seeded problem.
>
>So I installed /dev/random
>
>
>Then I entered the command
>
>genrsa -des3 -random /dev/random -out server.key 1024
>
>since dev/random is a data file & i know it is randomly changing.
>
>an hour later i still haven't been prompted for a passcode.
>
>is this a reasonable timeframe or am i doing something wrong?
It will never finish. You will never get an EOF from /dev/random, so openssl
will just keep reading the file forever. How about:
dd if=/dev/random of=rand.dat bs=1k count=3
genrsa ... -rand rand.dat ...
DS
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