Re: Problems running tarsnap-keygen

[James Montgomerie <jamie@th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs>]

On 9 Oct 2009, at 20:30, Colin Percival wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> James Montgomerie wrote:
> > [~/admin] things$ tarsnap-keygen --keyfile ./tarsnap.key --user
> > jamie@th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs --machine  
> > th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs
> > Enter tarsnap account password:  < I enter the correct password  
> > here, as
> > set up on www.tarsnap.com >
> > tarsnap-keygen: error in AES_set_encrypt_key
> > tarsnap-keygen: error in AES_set_encrypt_key
> > tarsnap-keygen: Too many network failures
> > tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server
>
> Wow, that's a weird error -- that's an OpenSSL function which is  
> failing, and
> there's really no good reason why it should ever fail.  Can you  
> check which
> version of OpenSSL you have installed?

[~/admin] things$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009

Jamie.