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I am working on create certificate signing request for my server. when I run:

openssl genrsa -out www.mysite.com.key 2048

I got the error msg

"unable to write "random state" 
e is 65537 (0x10001)

Could anyone help me? please!

Thank you

Marc B
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Bruce Parker
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  • Possible duplicate of [Using openssl what does “unable to write 'random state'” mean?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94445/using-openssl-what-does-unable-to-write-random-state-mean). – jww Jan 12 '14 at 01:19
  • https://stackoverflow.com/a/48290001/715269 – Gangnus Jan 16 '18 at 21:21

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Try executing the command as a superuser, like:

sudo openssl genrsa -out www.mysite.com.key 2048
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