On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:44:02PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > I have a problem with openssl on 1.5.1_ALPHA:
 > when I try to generata a RSA key:
 > openssl genrsa -out /usr/pkg/etc/httpd/ssl.key/server.key 1024
 > it looks and seems to never terminate. Ktrace shows that it loops reading
 > data from /dev/urandom; each read returns 4088 bytes.
 > Systems spends more than 98 CPU time in kernel.

There is a problem with the "random seed file" code in OpenSSL; I have
a quick hack fix, which causes another problem.

I'm going to have another look when I get back from IETF, and see if I
can squash the problem for real.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>