As far as I understand, that file is used only to seed the internal PRNG, not to read numbers from there... Or am I wrong? (Also the docs say the file will be overwrited)
Regards, Vandra Ákos 2009/7/3 Bernhard Froehlich <[email protected]> > Akos Vandra schrieb: > > Hello! >> >> I have a source of (more or less) true random numbers, which I get as >> binary files (1MB each). >> I want openssl to use these files as a random number source to generate >> keys and signing operations. How can this be done? >> >> Regards, >> Vandra Ákos >> > Try using the RANDFILE= parameter in the configuration file > http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/config.html, though I don't know if this > parameter is used by all commands. > > Hope it helps. > Ted > ;) > > -- > PGP Public Key Information > Download complete Key from http://www.convey.de/ted/tedkey_convey.asc > Key fingerprint = 31B0 E029 BCF9 6605 DAC1 B2E1 0CC8 70F4 7AFB 8D26 > > >
