Did this fix the problem.  I'm having the same problem.  How exactly do you
"set RANDFILE environment variable in the service process"  Is that the same
as the environment variables.  I bet this is a windows 2003 server.  I
actually called linkpoint about this.  They had no solution.  



wolfoftheair wrote:
> 
> This is User FAQ #1: http://openssl.org/support/faq.html#USER1
> 
> You must provide a source of entropy -- that is, randomness -- to
> OpenSSL in order for it to provide any kind of security at all.  This
> can be done by setting the RANDFILE environment variable in the
> service process, and filling that file with at least 128 bits
> (preferably at least 1024 bytes) of random data.  (If you don't know
> what random data to use, try creating a bunch of keys with 'openssl
> rsagen', concatenating all of them, and saving that as the %RANDFILE%
> contents.  If that doesn't work, take some random user documents and
> use those.  It doesn't matter -- as long as it's not known to anyone
> else what the contents are.  (Preferably, only SYSTEM and the service
> account will have read access -- even Administrators shouldn't.)
> 
> Make sure that file is readable and writable by the service process,
> and don't just point RANDFILE at a user's file -- copy whatever you
> want into where you want it to be, and then use that copy.  OpenSSL
> will write its random state out to that file as well.
> 
> -Kyle H
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:33 AM, shadi jawhar <shadi_jaw...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> We spent 5 days researchng and trying.
>> We have an Ecommerce simple applocation that uses link point to process
>> orders.
>> We installed OPEN SSL As it is required.
>> When the application tries to process order using the com objects, we are
>> getting:
>>
>> SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded
>>
>>
>> <r_error> Unable to connect to server.   ERRs: wsa=0 err=604389476 ssl=0
>> sys=0.  INFO: ACE_SSL (50872|61532) error code: 604389476 -
>> error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded
>> </r_error>
>>
>> Please help
>>
>>
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