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Hi,
I'm having trouble generating unique pairs of RSA keys. It seems that no matter how many times and with what kind of data I add using RAND_add, the same keys get generated over and over again. If I generate a particular key set, then 2 or 3 key sets later a memcmp confirms it and the original match.
I currently generate a large number of GUIDs and add them with RAND_add.
Every call to RAND_status returns 1 (indicating enough entropy) then I call RSA_generate_key and compare the private key to previous only to find they match.
What order of function calls should be made to generate unique keys? Also, what is the best way to ensure enough entropy on a win32 machine without the /dev/random?
Any help or sample key generation code would be extremely helpful.
David
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