Loading FAQ +6 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ Most components of the openssl command line tool try to use the file $HOME/.rnd (or $RANDFILE, if this environment variable is set) for seeding the PRNG. If this file does not exist or is too short, the "PRNG not seeded" error message may occur. Pointing $RANDFILE to an Entropy Gathering Daemon socket does not work. Use the "-rand" option of the OpenSSL command line tools instead. The $RANDFILE environment variable and $HOME/.rnd are only used by the OpenSSL command line tools. Applications using the OpenSSL library provide their own configuration options to specify the entropy source, please check out the documentation coming the with application. [Note to OpenSSL 0.9.5 users: The command "openssl rsa" in version 0.9.5 does not do this and will fail on systems without /dev/urandom Loading Loading
FAQ +6 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ Most components of the openssl command line tool try to use the file $HOME/.rnd (or $RANDFILE, if this environment variable is set) for seeding the PRNG. If this file does not exist or is too short, the "PRNG not seeded" error message may occur. Pointing $RANDFILE to an Entropy Gathering Daemon socket does not work. Use the "-rand" option of the OpenSSL command line tools instead. The $RANDFILE environment variable and $HOME/.rnd are only used by the OpenSSL command line tools. Applications using the OpenSSL library provide their own configuration options to specify the entropy source, please check out the documentation coming the with application. [Note to OpenSSL 0.9.5 users: The command "openssl rsa" in version 0.9.5 does not do this and will fail on systems without /dev/urandom Loading