On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 02:03:04AM -0500, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Quickstart: do everything following the # signs as root
>
> This is an FYI to demonstrate how to have exim work with SSL using the
> stunnel wrapper and its underlying OpenSSL libraries and toolkit. It's
> intended as a recipe; there are plenty of explanations about the underlying
> technology (start at http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/ ) but little
> up-to-date cookbook info (that I could find) and the manpages left me
> guessing.
[snip]
> Generate Diffie-Hellman parameters:
>
> # openssl gendh -rand /dev/urandom > exim.dh
It was recently pointed out to me that this no longer works -- it seems
openssl gendh is waiting for an EOF. So, this works:
# head -5 /dev/urandom | openssl gendh -rand - > exim.dh
which seems on average to provide about 1K of random data.
Cheers,
Paul
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