ssl error "PRNG not seeded"

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at zope.com
Thu Apr 10 13:33:24 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 11:13, Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> sslerror: (1, 'error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG
> not seeded')

> Is this likely to be a problem in the Python SSL implementation or an
> OpenSSL problem?

The error quoted about is generated in OpenSSL.  The Python SSL code
just wraps the error message in a Python exception and propagates it.

Jeremy







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