From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2002-05-24T15:38:09+09:00
Subject: Ruby/OpenSSL and error: PRNG not seeded

Hello,
 My environment is:
Ruby 1.6.7 on HP-UX 11.0 (actually 11.04)
OpenSSL 0.9.6c
Ruby/OpenSSL 0.1.1

When I run the script:

#!/opt/ruby/bin/ruby
    require 'net/https'
    host, port, path = "myserver.mydomain.com", 443, "/"
    h = Net::HTTP.new(host, port)
    h.use_ssl = true 
    h.get2(path){ |resp| print resp.body }

I get the following error:

/opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/openssl.rb:93:in `__connect':
SSL_connect:error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG
not seeded (OpenSSL::SSL::Error)
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/openssl.rb:93:in `connect'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/openssl.rb:93:in `synchronize'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/openssl.rb:93:in `connect'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocols.rb:51:in `ssl_connect'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/https.rb:147:in `on_connect'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:152:in `conn_socket'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:499:in `do_start'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:131:in `start'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:667:in `request'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:638:in `request_get'
        from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/testhttpsclient.rb:6

How can I know which PRNG I need, or why the script can't find it, or how I
can
check if it is seeded correctly? Ruby and Ruby/OpenSSL compiled OK.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Barry