On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:39:17AM -0500, Don Badrak wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Theodore Hope wrote:
>> When I run "openssl s_client -connect www.foo.bar:443" I get this:
>>
>> unable to load 'random state'
>> This means that the random number generator has not been seeded
>> with much random data.
>> Consider setting the RANDFILE environment variable to point at a file that
>> 'random' data can be kept in (the file will be overwritten).
[...]
> I'm also not sure what to use for this.
If RANDFILE is not defined, file ~/.rnd is used as a default.
You can cat lots of unpredictable data into this file to provide
initial PRNG seeding. See <URL: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#6>.
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