Robert Joop schrieb:
> 
> On 02-04-24 00:40:06 CEST, Josef Vesely wrote:

> > My error-ssl.log is full of "unable to write 'random state'" messages. Do you
> > know, what should be wrong?
> 
> for cryptography, you need a lot of random bytes (you don't anyone to
> guess your keys, do you?). since truely random bytes are hard to get, it
> tries to keep them around in a file for later use.
> this file cannot be written.
> you should check the file's permissions.

Must this file exist before using OpenSSL?

(We don't create var/crypto/keys/.rand. We only use this file in
openssl.cnf.)

Michael
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