Re: Strange error concerning random seed

[Ralph Angenendt]

Sorry for coming back to you so late.

Mark Burgess wrote:
> Ralph, I'm not sure why this occurs now and not earlier. It has to do
> with the random key generation and is used in all challenge response
> sections. It might be that you have upgraded openssl. That is where the
> error originates.

Might have happened when updating our Server, yes. I cannot say that
that is, when the problem started though (as I don't know if and when
that upgrade happened).

> One solution is to simply start running cfenvd. That
> is a good and harmless way to seed the random number generator.

Thanks, that did the trick (at least it seems to work) =:)

Ralph
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