RE: rand in Windows

2012-07-06 Thread Jeremy Farrell
The simplest thing is simply to ignore the error. It's trying to write a file in a location which is not writeable by ordinary users. The file it's trying to write helps work around a deficiency in some ancient versions of Windows, helping ensure the randomness of future calls to the command. Th

Re: rand in Windows

2012-07-06 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 7/6/2012 5:17 AM, Thomas J. Hruska wrote: On 7/5/2012 8:07 PM, John wrote: Hello. I have OpenSSL-Win64 version 1.0.1c installed on 64-bit Win7. I am trying to use it to create a random generated file for use in stunnel, using this command "openssl rand -out filexyz.rnd -hex 2048" from the Wi

Re: rand in Windows

2012-07-06 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012, John wrote: > > > "Thomas J. Hruska" wrote in message > news:<4ff658d9.2010...@shininglightpro.com>... > >On 7/5/2012 8:07 PM, John wrote: > >> Hello. I have OpenSSL-Win64 version 1.0.1c installed on 64-bit Win7. I > >> am trying to use it to create a random generated fil

Re: rand in Windows

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas J. Hruska
On 7/5/2012 8:56 PM, John wrote: "Thomas J. Hruska" wrote in message news:<4ff658d9.2010...@shininglightpro.com>... On 7/5/2012 8:07 PM, John wrote: > Hello. I have OpenSSL-Win64 version 1.0.1c installed on 64-bit Win7. I > am trying to use it to create a random generated file for use in > s

Re: rand in Windows

2012-07-05 Thread John
"Thomas J. Hruska" wrote in message news:<4ff658d9.2010...@shininglightpro.com>... On 7/5/2012 8:07 PM, John wrote: > Hello. I have OpenSSL-Win64 version 1.0.1c installed on 64-bit Win7. I > am trying to use it to create a random generated file for use in > stunnel, using this command "open

Re: rand in Windows

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas J. Hruska
On 7/5/2012 8:07 PM, John wrote: Hello. I have OpenSSL-Win64 version 1.0.1c installed on 64-bit Win7. I am trying to use it to create a random generated file for use in stunnel, using this command "openssl rand -out filexyz.rnd -hex 2048" from the Windows CLI. Although it appears to succeed, but