Hi, Dave
Just wanted to say hello, since we're both on this list.
David Mitchell, coop-cdc.com
David Mitchell wrote:
>
> A modest proposal:
>
> Since
>
> "Failed to generate temporary 512 bit RSA private key"
>
> is such an FAQ on this list (even though it's in the FAQ ;-),
> perhaps some defensive coding might be order that detects possible
> errors earlier and so gives a more informative error message?
>
> An easy one would to die with an error if there are no random
> sources defined in the conf file . This for example can happen with
> the mod_perl test suite's default httpd.conf
>
> Harder would be to cause an error like the the above to be logged as
>
> "Failed to generate temporary 512 bit RSA private key:
> insufficient entropy available from the random source(s)
> "
>
> or similar?
>
> [ There are probably good reasons why this cant be done; if so, I'll
> just shut up and go away :-) ]
>
> Dave M.
>
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