I'll answer my own question in hopes of saving someone else some time some day.
The openssl self-test is apparently quite enthusiastic about using up entropy. Starting egd with the "--bottomless" parameter allowed the openssl make test to proceed to completion. This egd feature is mentioned in its README, in the section about usage with GPG. JcP The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. -- R. W. Sockman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff & Lita Pratt Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: openSSL 1.0.0g on hpux-11i I'm a newbe with openssl, trying to get it installed so I can build cURL libararies. My system does not have /dev/random, etc, so I downloaded, built, and installed the egd daemon. It appears to be running: $ ll $HOME/.rnd -rw------- 1 jeff lms 1024 Mar 2 12:30 /home/jeff/.rnd $ ll /etc/entropy srwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 0 Mar 2 11:05 /etc/entropy I then ran configure, make, and make test in the openssl-1.0.0g directory. The make test got a lot further this time (I'd tried it a few days ago before realizing I needed egd), but, alas, after awhile it emitted: rsa Setting up TSA test directory... Creating CA for TSA tests... Creating a new CA for the TSA tests... unable to load 'random state' This means that the random number generator has not been seeded with much random data. Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key Error Generating Key 2063818456:error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not see ded:md_rand.c:522:You need to read the OpenSSL FAQ, http://www.openssl.org/suppo rt/faq.html 2063818456:error:04081003:rsa routines:RSA_BUILTIN_KEYGEN:BN lib:rsa_gen.c:208: TSA test failed! *** Error exit code 1 What did I miss???? Thanks in advance... Jeff Pratt ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
