I finally got the RSA key generated! From there, I was finally able to create my PKI
certificate request, which was submitted this morning.
I have tried lots of variations in trying to get to this point. Among the things I
tried was using the openssl package from Sunfreeware.com, using different versions of
openssl, variations of pointing to /dev/random .... All of these would fail at the
point of generating the RSA key.
The solution that finally succeded was to install EGD (from
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ ), then start it up with the command:
/usr/local/bin/egd.pl /etc/entropy Once enough entropy had gathered, I was able to
generate the key with the command: openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key -rand
/etc/entropy 1024
Thank you for your help, everyone! Your pointers for command lines to try really
helped.
Janet Shea
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. Tan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:PRNG problems on Solaris 7 sparc
Hi Janet,
how is your progress coming along?
have you tried using a third party PRNG like ocotillo?
(http://ocotillo.sourceforge.net/). I'm going to be building a similar
box in the near future (same platform) and will use this PRNG as a test.
I'll let you know how it goes...
-mike
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