Get EGD or PRNGd from: http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html
And call RAND_egd("/var/run/egd-pool"); before you try to use any crypt or ssl routines ... Obviously /var/run/egd-pool may vary depending on where you initialize the egd socket from egd or prngd Personally, I'd recommend PRNGd as EGD is a PERL script ... -Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have installed OPENSSL on OSF1 V4.0 (Digital Unix) and I am trying to > run the demos/bio programs saccept and sconnect. > > I run saccept localhost:8900 and all is fine. > > When I run sconnect localhost:8900, I receive the following message: > > SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRING not seeded. > > I have looked at httpL//www.openssl.org/support/faq.html > > There is no /dev/random or /dev/urandom on my UNIX box. > > I have copied the .rnd file into the demos directory and have > set RANDFILE to point to this file. Still no luck. > > Please advise on how what steps I need to take in order to seed the random number >generator. > > P.S. I originally ran into this problem, when trying to get a gSoap client to talk >to Apache using SSL. > > Regards, > Larry > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the >convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]