Generating temporary RSA private keys

[Colin Scott]

 

I'm getting a long delay when starting up apache using "apachectl startssl" that I don't get when I start it without enabling ssl i.e. "apachectl start". The delay is always 4 minutes during which time any browser that tries to connect to the server will lock-up [i.e. no error is returned from the server so the browser either waits or retries the request?]!! Here is some info from the "ssl_engine_log" file:

 

[12/May/1999 14:46:50] [info]  Server: Apache/1.3.6, Interface: mod_ssl/2.2.8, L
ibrary: OpenSSL/0.9.2b
[12/May/1999 14:46:50] [info]  Init: 1st startup round (still not detached)
[12/May/1999 14:46:50] [info]  Init: Initializing OpenSSL library
[12/May/1999 14:46:50] [info]  Init: Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aw
are server cc35664-a:443
[12/May/1999 14:46:50] [info]  Init: Requesting pass phrase via builtin terminal
 dialog
[12/May/1999 14:48:11] [info]  Init: Wiped out the queried pass phrases from mem
ory
[12/May/1999 14:48:16] [info]  Init: 2nd startup round (already detached)
[12/May/1999 14:48:16] [info]  Init: Reinitializing OpenSSL library
[12/May/1999 14:48:17] [info]  Init: Seeding PRNG with 21476 bytes of entropy
[12/May/1999 14:48:17] [info]  Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys
[12/May/1999 14:52:13] [info]  Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL
[12/May/1999 14:52:13] [info]  Init: Configuring server cc35664-a:443 for SSL pr
otocol

 

Here are my questions:

 

1. Is the 4 minute delay normal for a 50Mhz Sparc processor?

2. What does the line "Generating temporary RSA private keys" mean?

3. If this is a "normal" process going on can we at least have the server tell the browsers it's busy or something???

 

Thanks for and help

 

Colin Scott