Ipsec key generation fails with "ipsec rsasigkey: key pair generation failed: "-8037"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Generating a key pair for use with Openswan shows the error

    ipsec rsasigkey: key pair generation failed: "-8037"
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el6_1.1.x86_64

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