On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:42:09PM +0100, Juergen Moellenhoff wrote:

> I use the OpenSSL-Lib since version 0.5.1b (SSLeay) for my HTTPS-PlugIn for  
> the OmniWeb-Browser (MacOS X/OPENSTEP) and had no problems to use and compile  
> the OpenSSL-Lib as Framework (shared lib) for MacOS X and OPENSTEP 4.2/NEXTSTEP  
> 3.3, today I tried to use the OpenSSL version 0.9.5 and now I get this error  
> when I try to connect to an SSL-Server:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> SSL_connect() failed: [8827:error:24064064:random number  
> generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:prng not seeded:md_rand.c:476:  
> 8827:error:05067003:Diffie-Hellman routines:DH_generate_key:BN  
> lib:dh_key.c:148: 8827:error:14098005:SSL  
> routines:SSL3_SEND_CLIENT_KEY_EXCHANGE:bad asn1 object header:s3_clnt.c:1403]
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I changed nothing in the source code of the HTTPS-PlugIn and I compiled and  
> created the framework of the OpenSSL-Lib for MacOS X and OPENSTEP 4.2/Mach the  
> same way I did it for the 0.9.4 version.
> 
> I don't know why SSL_connect() fails inside the md_rand file, I assume that  
> the random number generator can't generate enough random bytes, but what is the  
> difference between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5?  [...]

See file FAQ.  The problem is that your random numbers are as
predictable as your question :-)
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