[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#898470: openssl says "Can't load /root/.rnd into RNG"

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Mon May 14 22:45:52 BST 2018


On 2018-05-12 05:38:05 [+0000], Sander Jonkers wrote:
> Second command (goed wrong):
> # openssl req -new -x509 -key example.com.key -out example.com.cert -days 3650 -subj /CN=example.com      
> Can't load /root/.rnd into RNG
> 140283178746304:error:2406F079:random number generator:RAND_load_file:Cannot open file:../crypto/rand/randfile.c:88:Filename=/root/.rnd
> 
> I would have expected no error.

It does say error, but everything completes as expected, correct?

Sebastian



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