Hi,
I'm trying to create a self-signed certificate for openssl under winxp, so I can set up Apache with ssl on my development machine. However, I keep getting the "unable to write 'random state' message when I use the command:
openssl req -config openssl.cnf -new -out server.csr
This results in an empty server.crt file after doing the other steps and Apache refuses to start with an empty .crt file.
I have a file called randomseed.rnd in c:\windows (I've even tried it with it called just .rnd), which contain 512 bytes of random stuff. I gather this is used as the entropy source for random number generation.
I've spent the last two days reading loads of out-dated, mainly *nix oriented stuff and am now tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to do this on winxp.
Does anyone have any idea why it's unable to write the random state (I've given everyone full permission on the .rnd files just to be sure) or can you point me to any articles on how to get random number seeding to work on winxp?
Debbie
