The question about -rand option is valid, but Viktor’s post is right and the rest of my post is wrong :(
From: openssl-users <openssl-users@openssl.org> Reply-To: Rich Salz <rs...@akamai.com> Date: Monday, November 11, 2019 at 8:10 AM To: shiva kumar <shivakumar2...@gmail.com>, openssl-users <openssl-users@openssl.org> Subject: Re: dsaparam error OpenSSL 1.1.1d * openssl dsaparam 128 -rand file Why are you using the -rand option? Unless this is a special platform, don’t do that. * is taking long time processing the command and not producing any output. What is your hardware and software? Can you run it under a debugger, and interrupt it sometimes to see where it is?
