openSSL Key generation

From: Leland T. Snyder <ltsnyder(at)x3ci.com>
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 00:05:44 EST

I'm executing the command to generate a server key according to the RedHat linux manual, my system is as follows:

Software: Redhat 8.0 all current security updates installed. The system is a 1.2 GHrt Athalon with 512MB Memory.

[root@base04 root]# rpm --query --all | grep -i openssl
openssl-0.9.6b-29
pyOpenSSL-0.5.0.91-1
openssl-devel-0.9.6b-29
[root@base04 root]# rpm --query --all | grep -i kernel

kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9
kernel-source-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0
kernel-2.4.18-14
kernel-2.4.18-19.8.0

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[root@basea1 tmp]#

[root@basea1 tmp]#
[root@basea1 tmp]# nohup time /usr/bin/openssl genrsa -rand /dev/urandom
1024 > /tmp/server.key &

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While the manual says this might take a long time, it has been running all night, are athalon processors slow? or did I phrase my command incorrectly? CPU time is being consumed like crazy.

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39 processes: 36 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 81.0% system, 18.7% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 255412K av, 196248K used, 59164K free, 0K shrd, 84596K buff

Swap: 1023616K av,       0K used, 1023616K free                   91016K

cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
12559 root      30   5   800  800   668 R N  99.6  0.3 748:39 openssl
    1 root      15   0   476  476   424 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd

 . . . Later the same day

[root@base04 root]# top

 12:46am up 8 days, 2:34, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.02, 1.01 42 processes: 38 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 5.1% system, 2.5% nice, 0.3% idle Mem: 255412K av, 200188K used, 55224K free, 0K shrd, 90152K buff

Swap: 1023616K av,       0K used, 1023616K free                   89388K

cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
12559 root      30   5   800  800   668 R N  99.4  0.3  1574m openssl
    1 root      15   0   476  476   424 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kapmd

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Leland
Computer Consultants Consortium Incorporated Received on Thu Feb 6 12:29:49 2003