OpenSSL hangs during PKCS12 export with "Loading 'screen' into random state"
git-bash, openssl, ssl, windows
Solution
Please try to add `winpty` before oppenssl:
winpty openssl ...
or you can run a new bash wrapped by winpty:
winpty bash
In the windows console, there is some problem with terminal input/output so winpty can help if some software requires `unix` terminal behavior.
`winpty` helped me to run openssl in this environment:
git version 2.7.3.windows.1
OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
Problem
I am generating a self-signed SSL certificate with OpenSSL (not makecert), for use in IIS. ``` openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365 -nodes -subj '//CN=myhost' ``` (The double slash is correct. The command above does not work without that.) ``` openssl pkcs12 -export -out key.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem -name 'myhost' ``` The first command runs completes successfully. However the second get stuck with Loading 'screen' into random state - I am using OpenSSL (1.0.2d) that comes with Git for Windows (2.6.3). Anyone experiences the same issue? Clarification: Question How to fix "unable to write 'random state' " in openssl describes different -- problem with writing the the .rnd file. Here the problem seems to be generating the random state. (And only in the second command.)