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Policy Server on Windows writes "Unable to obtain OS random data" in logs

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Article ID: 36823

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Products

CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder) CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder) CA Single Sign-On SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Trying to start the Policy Server on Windows, this one does not start and report error :

[5588/5404][Wed Jun 17 2015 14:53:10][CCrypto.cpp:749][ERROR] Unable to obtain OS random data
[5588/5404][Wed Jun 17 2015 14:53:10][CCrypto.cpp:700][ERROR] Unable to seed random number generator
[5588/5404][Wed Jun 17 2015 14:53:10][CCrypto.cpp:174][ERROR] Unable to initialize random number subsystem
[5588/5404][Wed Jun 17 2015 14:53:10][CServer.cpp:3784][ERROR] Unable to initialize crypto subsystem

How can I fix this ?



Environment

Release:
Component: SMPLC

Resolution

Check the account used for the starting and stopping the Policy
Server on Windows. This account should have permissions to
access the CSP service on Windows through those functions :

 CryptAcquireContext():
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa379886.aspx
 CryptGetRandom():
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa379942.aspx
 CryptReleaseContext():
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa380268.aspx

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