Re: problem with RSA keys on HP-UX 11

[Shawn Ferry]

If anyone needs it.

Patch-ID# 112439-01
Keywords: random number generator PRNG
Synopsis: SunOS 5.8_x86: /kernel/drv/random patch
Date: Apr/16/2002


Quoting David Douthitt <ssrat@mailbag.com> on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:20:45PM 
-0500:
> 
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 01:26  PM, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> >I had a similar issue with Solaris 2.8/intel.  When I generated keys 
> >on another machine (a Linux box) and copied them over, everything was 
> >fine.
> 
> >>After much mucking about, I finally determined that the problem was 
> >>in the
> >>openssl libraries I had installed on this box.
> 
> I've installed SSH (which uses SSL) on both HP-UX and Solaris for 
> Intel.  As I recall, both systems have problems with not having a 
> suitable source of entropy to use; specifically, neither system 
> supports /dev/random.
> 
> I remember there was a patch for Solaris 8 and up to fix this; the 
> HP-UX solution was to use some other source of entropy (EGRP?).  I seem 
> to recall SSH using various system statistics to generate enough 
> randomness for this purpose.
> 
> Does this provide any solutions for you all?
> 
> I never did use Cfengine under Solaris, but do use it (cfengine v2.0.4) 
> on HP-UX 10 and 11 every day.
> 
> -- 
> David Douthitt
> david@douthitt.net
> UNIX SysAdmin - HP/UX, UnixWare, Linux
> LPIC-1, Linux+
> 
> 
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